The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-29
'SOCKER FOOTBALL
TO Be POPULAR.
The Absence Of Brutality is One
Of Its Prominent
Features.
ENGLISH BARoNET's VIEW
Sir Ernest cochrane Says "Riot"
Well Describes the Ameri-
can Game.
,snoc,o, 10 The Times Dispatch.)

Especial to The Times Dispatch.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 1i.-Apropos OF the sym.
postum sent you last Saturday when the foot
ball authorities Of various colleges throughout
the country discussed the relative merits OF
American Rugby football. the game now played
here and association or ''socker football.
Cochr ane who is accompanying the Pilgrims.
e British as 5s S Of ne e ies Of hc
q have just returned from Ch!engo and
Whether ll seeker football would become popular
in this country or not The opinions given
teams in America and may l, with great
respect. point out that this is scarcely falr
criticism You would hardy expect tho ,e eoach
to go into raptures over an imported game:
especially when the imported game does not
Since their arrival In this country the Pill
grims have played i1 ST. Louis. Detroit CHI I,t
SIGH favorable Impression BY the real sports
manship and science OF the game, and the
entire absence Of nta!,y the better
forming Association teams. Wfth respect
to your colleges It may be said TINT the Uni.
the Germantown Cricket Club. Invited Captain
Mines and the Pilgrims to return TO Phil
as ss hem thus a giving them aoha
opportunity OF studying football as IT Is play
or shall say riot?-which t6ok place at tho
American League Pork yesterday. Your :, own 9r
are sufficient for my purpose. Is this sport?
~ cannot understand the views Of d:
approve 5i; OF in,ernational matches because they
dcvelope too many unpleasant incidents sure IRE.
y ohns !, could 1s aser tho
countries DR.. Elliot, however. believes TINT
the American game could be reformed. We'll.
that Is what we want to do.
"As for tho opinions Of Woodruff and Morley
that the American game 10 lhe PETER, ,,. why
sseq,h Stage Of I Tho University r Of Chicago
suggests that the 'socker game should be
taken up in VA do yay wnn Is
I quash American Rugby football but we be, pc,
iiove that II the Association game were added
II have never heard anybody describe the
American Rugby game as a rInid pu "a q
nell says II is superior because OF team work
and the opportunities It affords o. hanahf
the team I'M Young un American says good drill in
discipline There could be no more conce11ed
play than there Is in the Association q, game =.
self he can do lot OF damage to the team.
The ball must be kept passing from one for
ward to another in order to keep 1t away from
their opponents.
n nes describe ii as rloting lead to
discipline. We never have serious accidents
IN ns the fpactured collar bone and thai
3 is fare. Ons never sees men carried of tho
field in England
'Warner the Cornell coach says our game
depends upon fleetness OF feet and skill. while
Yours is a test Of strength Of against
man That Is just what We object to- Fleet
ness OF foot and skill make, a true atheete
but IL, the game is to determine which OF two
men is the ss.rongcr why not have prize
| fight at once?
Fin the American game, when man is in
jured a substitute is put on. In our game
| MAY with ten men against eleven. Then the
| spectator sees the whole game from start to
: finish"