New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-02
FOOTBALL NOT TARGET.
ONLY IT'S BRUTALITY.
Columbia Nay Take Up "Socker"
Game-MorIey Defends Sport.


E bid for popularity with "socker. or the English
or association game of football The Columbia and
Cornell association football teams TO have
game to-day. This will be watched carefully by
several OF those in Columbia who have con-
trolling voice in student athletic affairs Alhohs
them will be Professor II. u Lord, chairman OF
the university committee student organizations
1t was his committee which decided the aocilsh-
ment OF the present game of football at Co unlpia
Professor Lord is not against athletics, nor is ne
against football. 1t is only the American game
of to-day that he opposes In common with the
other members of the committee and others at 60
lumba Of influence in athletics He took pains 10
make It clear conversation yesterday that Co
lumbia IS not against football and that the game
will be encouraged there. There has been no m
terdicion football, he said but only on a par
tcuIar kind Of football. then praised the VIZ
tues CT the association game and said he neHeseu
that IT could be made to take the place with inc
American public of the game played at present
Columbia has had an association football team
for the last three years. This year 1t mas ar eo"s
played four matches. There are teams aiso' a.
Harvard. Cornell, Princeton and PennsylVseli7.
The Columbia athletic committee has Watcied ny
practice of the team there with much care TINS
fall. The action taken in abolishing the Aneioan
game not the result of sudden 1nsplIa'l0r
1t after long elaboration and as the result
of carefully thought out plan Of action anu ne
mass meeting of the students TO protest against
the course OF the authorities is not likely 10 pc o.
much avail
with Morley the head COACH yesterday, whlch ~
believed bear directly the question of taxing
up the association game at the university. Morley,
while he admits that the present game mas Infily
faults says that its advantages also great ana
is trying to make arrangements by which ColuIhold
can have a team next year. He says that Tues can
be made which will eliminate many Of the unde-
| sirabe features. He does not. however. aoNooa'e
| doing away entirely with the danger element pc
| cause he says that is what draws the croWds
The football association and the student booy
ara supporting Morley The football association Is
making plans by which 1t hopes TO overcome the
faculty objections to the game. At present II T.
considering its plan of action. The situation,
says Morley. is a delicate one, and we can ohly
hope to succeed by proceeding carefully
It is believed that at the conference yesterday the
question of coach in case Columbia has any SOFT
of a team next year was also considered
A letter President Butler has received from a
Harvard professor seems TO indicate that no as
sstance In the cause of football reform can pc
hoped for from that source. The letter says.
Allow me to express to you my sincere adrnira7
ton and gratitude for your acuon in the fo9toal
matter. Columbia has shown the way and Ire, re-
at once have WATCHED matters this fall care
fully i IS not true 5hnt Inc EVEN the un
gentlemanIike behavior The worst evil is the hyS-
teric and almost pathological state OF nho Wioh
| saw the Harvard-Yale game; with foTfy fe
as saw there prepares the public systemau ns
in social and political life Some one had to stand
against it, and / congratulate You nearby mat
you had the courage.
President Butler has received numerous other
letters prasing the stand Columbia has taken
President William H P Faunce of Brown Uni
versity makes the following statement of his views
on football:
Football must be reformed that it may not be
abolished. am not prepared TO advocate aPohsh--
ment, because that logically means the adjustment
81 an g srnege are allowed The 99estion is
anu he teI6paion to dishonor is so strong in
hal hat
afford remedy. The trouble is that the rules we
f nSg have against 0ru'a's nave seioom 0sen s
New rule. should be made Furnishing not only the
individual, but the whole team for brutality An
open style of play should be introduced as far
on avoirdupois and more intelligence, alertness
and skill dislike to see one student claSssihed
The arsument from accidents is not conclusive
II the same number OF students were riding horse
back during the autumn, there would be more
accidents than in playing football The real argl-
ment against the game is drawn from the mean
asSS a1e # IS Worth While to make great
concerted attempt. The public demand IT, ana
enforce it. IT,.
Professor Alexander Melklejohn. dean of the
faculty. and for several years president Of the
Brown University Athletic Association, makes
the following comment:
If it should become necessary to abolish foot
fer a serious loss More than any other, game it
develops courage co-operat ton, self-contro1
he a haT bed s is need in ali College ath
letcs is decisive action to so reshape their spirit
and management as to preserve their value, while
in football IS the limita ton of the element Of
danger as strictly as possible. without the loss
of those features which make 1t the most charac-
! teristic American sport
"The Triangle" the New York University week
~ will publish the following editorial next week
the question of the reform abolition of foot
ball:
To The Triangle it seems that; of al the state
since the Ohio Field tragedy three are especially
noteworthy. Chancellor Day of Syracuse must
men when he said; "One human life is too great
a price to pay for all the games OF the season
because Of TOT the fact Of death Itself but because
the feeling inspired by such death is only one
Other forms of sport have their death lists but,
accident, pure ana simple Football deaths are the
result of forms of play contemplated under the
rules slightly intensified. perhaps in manner al
most certain to occur in every game. =
The second statement vas made by Francis 3
posai to leave the reform of the game to the rules
committee the sthletic associations OF colleges
was like leaving the question OF cook-ns z sven
i Footbaii has been called an obesslon and to
prove the accuracy Of this statement we call 70
our aid Walter Camp, admittedly the sTe se9i
cassiaes series Of possible injuries that makes
bulfghting and prizefghting seem tame -
likely 70 be sprained ankle or a broken arm
III tba IS ofher ues Which Occur in heavy line
plays These injuries are more likely TO De 10 tHo
It should be noted however, that Moores death
was the result of one OF Mr. Camps genTTe Ue.
Carter. of Columbia, on the same gay ,or+ seems
eS1epneus On Mr. Camp Condemns football more
eF4cenfIv than any one generally recognized as
an authority could do
WOULD STOP FOOTBALL IN BOSTON.