Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-02
REVIEW Of The Sports
Widespread DemandGivesP
Use Of Revolutionizing or Abol-
ishing Game of Football
LIST OF VICTIMS APPALLING
Eighteen Deaths and 100 Injured Is
Total of the Games Cost This Year
Chicaso's Great victory-lowa Re-
trieves Some of It's Lost Laurels-
Drake Proves a Stubborn Foe for
Ames.

Ames.
| Will foot bali, the greatest Of all
college games, the toughest, most dam
gerous and savage of games invented
by man withstand the attack of u
clamoring public, aroused college pres
| idents and live In its present form tc
be- played in college ye;..s to come? 1t
is not likely. Out IN ne middle Wcss
now assuming tremendous proportions
in the east, to either modify SO tha- the
| dangerous features CT the same ijey
be eliminated or If this not possible
to do away with the sport altogether.
Recent happenings have added impetus
to this movement, foremost among
which was the wise utterances and
efforts OF President Roosevelt. Then
Columbia university struck the gam.
| from its list of sports and forbid it's
being played. Similar action is eX-
pected any day from other great east
ern universities notably among which
is Harvard. With these forces at
work the roughness, savagery, and
bl utality of foot ball must either give
way to a kind of play less Thought with
danger to life or limb or be put away
altogether.
Eighteen killed, and 169 injured,
half dozen of the latter not expected
to recover, is the toll in death, broken
bones and torn muscles that young
America has paid to this monster In
ten weeks. Almost two human beings
each week Is what 1t has cost Is the
rate not too high, when after all 1T Is
but game played in the name OF
sport. and amateur sport at that? No
other game ever devised by man has
claimed so many victims, and the vic-
TINS are the flower of young manhood,
most of whom had just reached their
majority Is 1t any wonder that COL
lege presidents, professors, boards OF
regents and managers have been cry
ing that the game is too rough? That
1t Is not worth the price paid? 1t GER
tainly Is not, and unless radical chang
es are made 1t must go down and give
way to the less dangerous sporta
The season is over, and Of all the
teams Of the west none covered itself
with such glory as did Chicago by VIM
ming the western championship at Chi
cago Thursday, playing to standstill
the hitherto unbeaten Yost machine,
and captured the most coveted OF all
western foot ball honors. The maroons
surprised their hackers, and even them
selves in the stubborn, even and UNI
wavering defense they put up against
the grinding rus11es of the heavier
Michigan team. Michigan, while play
ing Its usual game, went up against a
foe whose line was as good as its own
and backs as fast as anything it could
put into uniform. Two more evenly
matched teams have never lined up on
the gridirons Of either the east or west,
and while it was Clarkes mistake that
caused Michigan's downfall by two
points, yet it was Eckersall's long punt
that made the mistake possible and
Catlin's tackle that turned the error
Of Judgment into two points for the
maroons.
Some little part of the glory lost dur
ing the season by Iowa was regained
by the victory at st. Louis university,
which gave to Iowa the championship
of Missouri, If such thing as a team
from another state winning the cham
pionship of a neighboring state can be
possible. It also gave to Iowa claim
on the championship Of the Missouri
valley, and clinched her place with the
"big nine," the conference schools But
these honors are empty and do not take
the place of what might have been.
Iowa's fondest hope was to land in
among the topnotchers and have a try
for the first place Of all the west, but
it could not Iowa is longing for an
other team Of Williamses, Warmers and
their kind, which trampled all other
elevens under foot in the notorious sea-
sons Of 1900 and 1901.
AS had been expected, and as was
predicted in this column week ago,
Ames bested Drake on Thanksgiving
day at Des Moines. While the blue
and white Of the Des Moines school
put up a stubborn, stiff fight. and bat
.tled royalty that she might be kept
from defeat, the team could not stand
the grueling rushes of the heavier
Ames team During the first half
Drake made noble stand, but with
the second half weakness the result
of the remorseless pounding, began to
tell and Drake gave way more and
more with each succeeding charge I'M
til the end and defeat came.