The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-01
"S0CkER" GAME
BIDS FOR FAVOR
Enthusiasts Of Association Football
Trying to Boom Sport.
CLAIM GREAT THINGS FOR 1T
STATE LEAGUE is FORMED AND
ALREADY DOING BUSINESS.


The following from J. Morgan, an en-
thusiastic association football fan of
this city, on this popular English sport.
will be interesting to those who are not
familiar with this kind of football:
The football season has come again
and this year an effort viii be made TO
encourage the socker game in this in
termOuntain region. There is no mis-
taking the fact that this attractive
game is rapidly gaining Roadway on the
American continent. IL has already
got firm hold in the eastern cities, and
Harvard Haverford and several of the
eastern universities and colleges have
at last adopted the game, and by next
year a strong college league will be
formed. The game is not only suited
for the fall of the year, but for the early
spring months, and the playing of sock
er during those months VIII put the
players in good condition both for base
| ball when the season opens, track and
field events, and more especially cross
country running.
The chief attributes OF a good asso-
citation player are speed, good wind and
staying power, ability 10 control the
ball when in motion. and these can be
attained by the lightweight of 12O
pounds as easily and easier than by the
heavyWeights of $50 and up. IL is a
style of football in which the small man
has as good an opportunity of becoming
star performer as his heavier Oppo-
nent or team mate. a team of slim
youths who combine well, granting
that they possessed speed, and under
stood both the long and short passing
methods. could challenge opponents no
matter what their size or their weight.
! The advantages in this game are GER
| tainly on the s lie of the lightmen. Those
who are not physically strong enough
to undergo the ordeal of the rough
Rugby game should take up the sock
| err code with avidity.
Game Is Free From Danger.
The game is entirely free from dan
! ger. as the paraphernalia required is
| only shirt and knickers. None of the
armor plate in which the college Rugby
! players are elcased is needed. There
are at present strong leagues in Cali
! fornia. and the college faculty is
| strongly in favor of the game. 1t is
what football should aim to be, viz,
| recreation. Also, it is what the game
| is called. viz, football as the ball is
controlled. passed and repassed solely
] by the feet. Rugby played under any
! rules, whether British or American,
I can't put forward such a claim, as the
| ball is carried and not propelled by the
/ feet. In Rugby, with the exception of
/ the Kickoff, as far as footing the ball
I goes an empty tomato can would equal
/ ly answer the purpose.
! Lovers OF the Rugby code. and may
/ they grow i'm numbers, must not look
/ on this statement as antagonistic, as
/ We have no quarrel with them, but We
''socker" enthusiasts believe there is
ample room and scope for the two
/ codes OF play. to- develop and grow Up
/ side beside in perfect amity with each
other.
+ The chances of getting seriously hurt
! in association matches are few and far
between. A player gets Il chance OF
! receiving a kick on the shin or ankle
/ now and then, but never any serious
! bodily harm. No throwing, tripping
showing or heavy charging is allowed
I and no player can be INSTRUCTED in any
way or form unless he has the ball IN
! his possession. A great effort is now
/ being made to pOpulariZe the game in
this district 1t would give us the great
! est pleasure to see the various high
] schools, colleges and Y. NJ. c. 4. ath-
( letes taking an interest in and taking
/ to the game. We would like to see
! them giving the game a fair trial, moth
ing more. because everywhere that II
/ has been done the game has won out OF
/ its merits.
Strong State League Formed.
Already state league has beeT
4 formed to further the game in Utah
and the following clubs have JOINED
same. viz: Salt Lake a F. c., Salt Lake
4 l.
The ''soeker'' fever has already got it,
| grip OH Eureka and we hope and thini
] that both Bingham and. Ogden vii
form teams and throw on their lot Will
the newly formed league. The leagu,
president would especially welcom,
overtures from the officers in charg,
of sports at Fort Douglas and we sin
cerely hope the gallant boys in blu'
will give the same trial and organic
| teams.
The game is simple to understand
! Spectators who know nothing of thu
game can get an linking of the mail
! rudiments of the game in few min
utes. as the ball is always in sight ant
the object of the players is visible at
glance. The present visit Of the Pill
grim team from England will no doub
give a decided impetus TO the sOcke
| movement and there is an outsid
chance of this famous team of amateur
calling on Salt Lake to play an eXhibi
ton game against an united Utal
/ eleven. Those Who turn out to Sc
them, if such will happep win have
revelation shown them of the possibili
ties of the game and the wonderful
-feot work of which all classic "sOcker
teams are capable of. Inquiries as re
CARDS game will be received with vel
come by the president of the league an,
Instructions viii be willingly given.