The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-28
Most Refreshing Change From
Ranting of Reformers Who
Know Not Their Wants.
lspeelal to The rImes-pIspateh.l

NEW YORK. January 2L-1n these
days of football Mysteries on the
part of professors WHO have no more
idea of the game than tho average worn-
nm. tho speech of President Hadley, of
Yale, before the alumni dinner. stands
out like beacon in its rational treat
nent of the subject.
one Of President Hadlcy's gems OF
common sense must have landed forcl-
bly, on the gentleman fro University
Heights: ''We believe that football rules
should bo framed as far as possible by
football experts. for In this. as In every
other field. inexpert legislation is more
than likely to defeat it's own end.
And that's Just what will happen. Tho
{ football rules committee Will take care
of the game. and by this i mean the
original football rules committee. not the
tconglomerauon that. had its birth In the
McCrackcn powwow. True. the orig
lnal committee will hear what the new
members have to say: but let them once
propose any radical changes in the rules
that Will so alter the game that 1t is
In danger of losing its strenuous char
ecter and principles, and they will get
tho frosty fingers from the old members
of the original committee.
l It's lust possible that even though Har-
ward withdraw from football tho gamo
Z will be benefited. 1t will then be up to
Yale, Princeton. Pennsylvania, Michigan
and other molders of men, who are not
/, actuated in their treatment of sports
by the calamity howls of pigcon-livcred
professors, to get together and show how
: the game should be played to bring out
all that's good in the American youth.
That they can do this without the help
of Harvard, Columbia or New York Uni
verslty is a cinch.
Mutual Trust Wanted.
President TIadley further proposed
adopting ideals for tho game of football.
with ostracism the penalty for ignoring
them:
"r am convinced that If every Amerl-
can college student and graduate would
see that 1t was his duty as a gentleman
10 attribute honorable intentions to his
opponent as long as no accepted him as
an opponent, the worst Causes of irri-
tation would be avoided There will in
decd. always be men who under the spur
OF the moment do things that they ought
not to-" True in whist as we'll as foot
Z ball
Now comes the wall against the gate
money evil right on top Of tho announce.
\ ment that Yale had stored up wad of
100000 as n result OF its athletics 5
Is this al, evil? Tho fact that our
young men in college are so able nnan-
arially that they handle annually from
iHlNty TO ono Hunureu tnousiiiu dollars
10 tho entire satisfaction of their faculty
pverseers seems to mo most commend =
able rather than deplorable,
Is II not rather like the tempest In a
toapot for tho country's Instructors to
get all stirred up over the possibility OF
Jones or Smith making a nickel here
and there out of college athletics, while
Z tho insurance companies 20 n,orrily along
+ holding lavish banalets and being Nother-
I wise atrociously cxtrayngant and waste
FIJI with the policy holders money?
studying ont n remedy for this and
4 other Of tho country's evils, than 70
I become SO wrought up because their
stlidents are prematurely learning to
4 handle money In large doses?
Tho magnitude of football. its strenu-
Z nslty. the large amount Of money In
yolyed. the high salaried Coaches. are all