Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-15

addition to this there is system of foot
ball tactics in vogue among some of our
oldest and most influential universities
which can only excite horror and reproba-
ton among honorable gentlemen.
Some of the oldest and most respected
foot ball coaches instruct their teams to
njure the most capable players on the OPP
posing teams so that they cannot continue
to play. This Is fact well known to the
inner circle of foot ball coaches and play
ers and easily be substantiated by Civ
ing names, dates and places.
Instances Cited.
Some instances which have come to the
writer's personal knowledge from trust
worthy eye witnesses may be added. Be-
fore certain game between two great Unit
versities the head coach assembled his team
md told them that they could not win IN
The mcrrow's game with a certain man on
heir opponents team: he ordered that dur
ing the first half no attempt should be
made to score and every effort concen-
trated on putting him out of the game;
when this was effected in the first half, to
score and win in the second half. Orders
were given that when any one fell on his
man he was to fall on his head This plan
was carried out the next day; the man IN
question was carried from the field delirious
in the first half, and his brutal assailants
won the game i'm the second half.
In another case a member of a promi-
nent team was told by a friend that he was
to be ruptured in the future game. AMI
that a particular man had been told off to
do the rupturing. This actually happened
the next day. In third case minor col
lege was coached by prominent member
of a great universitys team. The coach
ing consisted in teaching them how TO
strike their opponents in certain delicate
parts Of the body, SO as to render them
helpless.
During the present season one member
OF the Georgetown team has been bitten
in sthe ear. another in the breast. The
game as thus played today is fit only for
thags It's ethics are more detestable than
those OF Gthe prize ring-there 1t is not al
lowed to strike below the belt, the contest
is between man and man. II Is not permit
TED TO strike man when he Is down.
Ethics of Foot Ball Tactics.
The ethics of foot ball tactics, as taught
by some of the best coaches, are to strike
in the most vulnerable parts of the body,
to use as many men as possible to strike
the, man singled out for injury, to strike
and foully injure the man when he Is down
and pinioned to the earth by those who
have thrown themselves on him
Only young men of brutal instincts can
force themselves to such conduct. Hence,
as recently stated in an editorial of WELL
known Washington paper, in every college
III tilc SpuHtiy ueH are HlTeQ lot TUITION,
board. lodging Or other compensation to
play on the various foot ball teams 800.
TO this general statement the present
Georgetown teams are an honorable ex-
ception. And it is the policy of the pres
ent administration to keep them so.
Georgetown has never attained much ath-
letic Importance in foot ball. and the trend
of the present administrations policy is not
to encourage foot ball, but to allow it to
have all the Importance that II can attain
when played by our own bona fde stu
dents. ..-
Georgetown has done and can do notably
well In base ball and rowing Teams and
crews composed OF our own students can
with much profit to themselves and with
great credit to the university engage in
these sports. 1t is and will be the policy
of the present administration to encoura ge
and foster these sports according to the
prescriptions of the letters of July r. 1905
The alumni and friends of the university
are earnestly requested by the present ad-
ministration to lend Georgetown a helping
hand in this work of keeping athletics free
from all that is unmanly. dishonorable and
degrading.