The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-23
Says FOOTBALL
IS GREAT GAME
DR.. Hutchins of University of
Wisconsin UphOlds Grid
iron Sport.
CONSIDERS SPORT AN
EXCELLENT DEVELOPER
Interest in Athletics to Be
Aroused by Department
Competition.
Tribune snecial Sporting Service.

lrlDuDe Sneclal sporting service.
MADISON, Wis, Sept. 22.-'Football-
the game-is one Of the finest IL not abb
solutely the finest sport. for the develop
men OF young men to their best powers,
said DR.. c. p. Hutchins the new athletic
director at the University OF Wisconsin,
who has just arrived at Madison ready to
assume his new duties at the opening Of
the fall semester. The best physical de-
velopment." he said, does not mean the
highest ability TO lift or throw great
weights: it does not mean merely the
greatest accumulation OF Drawn
"It means the development Of the mus
cles 10 answer promptly and accurately
10 the dictates OF the mind, just as the
best mental development is that which
FITS the mind TO respond TO the Will.
and the highest moral development is
that in which the will responds to the
promptlngs Of conscience. Football de-
velops in a young man all OF the best
qualities-strength, speed. the right sort
of courage. quick thinking, the absolute
obliteration OF self and the ordination
OF muscular effort.
Though am thoroughly familiar with
conditions In the East regarding athletic
matters" Dr. Hutchins continued. II
have yet to study the situation here in
the West. However, | have no doubt
that the temporary suspension OF Inter-
collegiate football contests between the
lieve the tension under which the game
has been played here. No one can foresee
what is going TO be the most successful
mode OF operation in the development OF
the game and there Will, of course, be
much experimentation.
Will Be Evenly Matched.
IF there Is 10 be conscientious adher-
euce on the part OF each Of the unlyer-
| stiles 10 the new rules and regulations
4 ~.
! why any intercollegiate contests should
I be forbidden. The new game should
! mean that the teams will be much more
evenly matched, more uniform, and with
| the more open play made necessary by
| the new ten-yard rule the game should
! require OF the men more speed than
weight, and should substitute prompt
! action in emergency TO the old following
| Of prcConccrtcd maDeuvers.
! "In carrying out the provisions OF the
recent athletic conference of the college
| section OF the north-ceutral committee
| of the American Athletic association all
| intercollegiate activities, as well as
| those confined TO the student body al
wisconsin. will he regulated by the de-
partment of physical training. which now
| embraces both indoor and outdoor work
The provisions OF the conference arc too
! we'll known TO require repetition. AS
heretofore. the members OF the freshman
and sophomore classes. who nave COM
puIsory gymnasium work, will be priv
| ileged to substitute work In the other
branches OF indoor and outdoor sports tc
the extent that the work selected shall
be equivalent
| 'One method on which we shall depend
largely for getting out the main body ol
the men for athletic work liz competition
between the various colleges In the uni
verslty believe In competition, We
hope by pitting the men OF the colleges
OF engineering. law. agriculture aud let
ters against each other in teams for the
various sports, TO stimulate TO ever
greater and more general interest aut
enthusiasm all the men In those various