Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27
FOR FOOT BALL REFORM
VIEWS OF PROMINENT EDUCAT-
oRs ON THE GAME.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
CHICAGO, November 21.-Foot ball as it
is played must be Immediately and radically
reformed or abolished.
This is the opinion of university and col
lege presidents all over the COuntry, tele-
graphcd to the Tribune in answer to mes
sage calling attention to the nineteen deaths
and one hundred and thirty-eight injuries
of the season now dra awing to an end.
President Schurman. Cornell University,
reiterated his plea for conference of uni
versty authorities Immediately to purge
foot ball OF it's evils and danger to life and
limb.
President Butler of Columbia University
strongly advocated reform.
President Eliot of Harvard said:
Il have not yet replied TO the telegram
of Chancellor MacCracken of the New
York University. When l do it will be by
letter and not by telegraph. | shall not call
a meeting of college and university presi-
dents to discuss the foot bail situation. 1
olEnot see why such movement should
come from NE.
The movement should come from body
of men representing the university.
AS the game is now played Objectionable
things will cccug, and vii! continue to do
so, Until the playing rules are revised.
President c. l.. Wees of Rose Polytechnic,
TeIre Haute. Ind, declared the first reform
must be the abolition of professionalism in
the ranks of players and coaches.
Prot. Smaller Mathews, dean of the Divin-
ity School of the University of Chicago
condemned the game as it is played as a
"Boy-killing, man n-rnutilatfng, money max
ing. educational -pIostitutng gladiatorial
sport. He has no sympathy for a game
that requires tho services of q physician
the maintenance of hospital or the cele-
bration of funerals.
President ". II. P. Faunce, Brown Uni
verSity said:
b,n
formed in order that it may not be abol-
iSlsd.'
President Cyrus NortRrop. University OF
Minnesota, sent TIE following telegram:
81 favor concerted action of colleges in
favor of reform in foot ball
President Henry Hopkins of Williams
College, Wiiliarstown, Mass, said:
The abolition of foot bali would bring
immense loss, especially in the way of
moral training, but as at present carried
on it costs more than it is worth. The
game is doomed unless it can be radically
changed, and yet to change it SO as to take
all the struggle and peril out of 1t would
just about spoil it"
Alderman Proposes Drastic Measure
CHICAGO, November 2T-Alderman A. J.
Harris of the ninth ward announced today
that he will this evening introduce an order
into the meeting of the city council direct
ing the corporation counsel of the city of
the game of foot ball in Chicago until the
present rules are modified and the dangers
OF brutality eliminated from the game.
The alderman declares that the many IA
talities and cases of serious, but not fatal
injuries resulting from the game this sea-
son make foot ball a more dangerous sport
than prize fighting.
The order which the alderman Will intro
duce will not in any way Interfere with the
game between the Universities of Chicago
and Michigan, to be played on Thanksgiv-
ing day, as 1t will not be possible for the
corporation counsel to report on the ordi-
nance before the first Monday in December.
Chancellor Days Views.
BINGHMTON. n. Y, November o7.-
Chancellor James r. Day of Syracuse Uni
Versity, who preached in this city yester-
day, was questioned about the game of foot
bali as now played by leading colleges and
universities, and declared that a change
in the rules of the game was necessary so
as TO eliminate the brutality of the sport.
"One human life he said lis too big A
price for all the games of the 3aason The
killing of Moore of Union College comes
near our own door and startIes us all"