New-York tribune., 1905-10-23

tire game and with defeat staring the Blue
and White in the face, and only five seconds
away, Schultz was sent in to try for a goal
from the field. He accomplished this difficult
feat, the angle being wide one, the score was
tied and the referees whistle ended the affair
right there. II hard game for Amherst
to lose And yet, when it is remembered what
q lot OF Encouragement Columbia has had to
face this fall from the disqualification OF its
captain and SO many of It's best players. there
will not be many to begrudge this little stroke
OF luck.
AS the season advances, most of the college
teams are eliminating the Wednesday games,
and Wednesday of this week will be almost
without match On Saturday. however, sew
erai OF the big fellows In for severe tests.
Yale Will so up to West Point to see # it can
exceed Harvard's score against the soldiers.
Harvard will play at Cambridge the Brown
team that gave the University of Pennsylvania
such stiff rub on Saturday. Princeton VIII
come here to play Columbia, and while the
New-YorkerS have little or no nope or winning,
they think they have fair chance to score. The
University OF Pennsylvania Will have as OPP
ponents at Philadelphia the Carlisle team and
while the Indians not as strong as in some
years. the Quakers are not over confident as 10
the result. OF course, the Princeton-C Columbia
and the Yaie-West Point matches are the most
important, they will furnish the first real
line on the respective strength of two of the
candidates for the championship honors Of 1913.
A good many football enthusiasts must have
read with some interest the remarks Of 'The
Harvard Bulletin TO the effect that college foot
ball as at present played is dull. Now, this is
proposition that it Will be difficult to maintain
When $4,000 or 10000 people sit through the
bleak winds of November afternoon shriektng
rnadly one moment and the next held spellbound
in a silence fraught with intensity that can be
fairly felt, it indicates that the game is more
tran rassably interesting. Would any game
-f,,y I'D,
on so many people? More than that. 1t is a
well known fact that it would be easy to assem-
bic crowds twice as large for the big games
II It were possible to furnish them seats or even
standing room from which they could see the
progress Of the match. This simple consider
alton disposes OF the contention that the
game is dull. Americans are not so anxious
to be bored as all that. 1t is true, how
ever that some portions of every football game
are unintelligible even to the most expert Of the
observers Penalties are imposed. the ball is
taken from one side and given to the other;
q team is set back five or ten yards, and no.
body outside the lines knows at the moment ex-
actly why. The mass plays are often compre-
hensible only so far as the results are Cpn1
cerned. When the mass is untangled we see that
Yale or Harvard or Princeton has advanced
the ball five or ten yards but often we cannot
see, without the aid Of glass, exactly how the
trick was done. That the game would be I'M
proved by an alteration of style. so as TO make II
more open or by q system Of bulletin boards at
each end of the field, run by means of signals
from the side lines. admits of no doubt ana ought
TO be one OF the subjects to be considered by
the authorities of the game. 1t is too much to
expect that football shall ever be made OBJ
vious as baseball where every move OF every
PLAYER is clearly seen, but some improvement in
this direction might easily be made and ought
to be made But dull football certainly Is not.
1 think It is highly probable indeed that when
Yale and Harvard meet IN November the author !
of that article in THE Harvard Bulletin" will |
be found occupying a seat on the stadium and
5l,vga1 1rioZ loud q
and as doIefully depressed at each Crimson set |
back as the veriest Cambridge sophomore.
Football suffers as much from its friends as
from its enemies end sdetractorss or more. My
attention has lately been directed particularly |
to one error Of Judgment which is too frequently
made by coaches and aptaIns. This mistake is in
allowing men to play who ought to be absolutely
debarred by reason Of physical considerations. |
do not mean that small men should be for |
bidden to play. for many Of the players who /
go through season after season without ever be- !
ing obliged to quit a. game are under the aver
age size and weight But every player should |
be put through a severe examination at the |
lands of a competent physician before being al |
lowed to play. The failure to do this is respon-
sble for accidents from whose results players
often do not recover. A game was played be-
tween two college teams in this city recently
in which player rendered unable to con-
tinue. The services Of physician who hap
pened to be in the grandstand were asked
for An examination showed that the PLAYER
who had collapsed had heart which was
ganically weak. While the physician ex-
amining him his pulse went down to 46 which
means that he actually at deaths door. Yet
this same player played again last Saturday.
This may be extreme case. but there is no
doubt that too little care is exercised along these
lines. If a player is willing to take his life in
his hands in this manner a coach should have
the good Of the sport too much at heart, aside
from personal considerations to allow him to
do II. THE UMPIRE.
HARVARD "R00TERs" FEEL BLUE