Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-01-06

The remedies for actual brutality or
dirty football" are mainly two: The
direct penalty, and the elimination
through scholarship and other AGA
demic tests of the dirty men who
make games dirty" The direct rem
edy is in the hands of the umpire.
This remedy is never sure, for the UNI
pire does not see everything and
sometimes does not try to do So
There are umpires who will think
twice before ruling out a member of
a powerful team, on whose goodwill
future chances for umpiring may de-
pend. Moreover, the penalty is not
severe enough. Dirty play in football
stands in the same category as
cheating at cards. 1t shows the Of
fender to be a cad mucker, thief,
who has no rights in the presence of
gentlemen. TO be convicted of dirty
football should bar the person in
question from all future intercollegi-
ate games. That the innocent might
not suffer from the umpire's bad judg-
ment on the moment, there should be
some sort of a court of final appeal.
In an admirable article, recently
published in "The Outlook" Dr. ].
William White, of the University of
Pennsylvania said:
"As no other game brings about
such close and violent personal con-
tact, no other game is 50 likely to be
complicated and dscredited by col
lisions between individuals whose eth
ical ideas are undeveloped, or who
have not learned the great football
lessons that ought to be printed and
displayed in every team room, viz.
that the better students they are the
better football they will play; that,
on the whole, a clean team and a
clean game are good football policy
as well as good morals and good man.
ners; that time spent in quarreling
and disputing is time wasted, and
that every moment employed in
slugging or calling names, or in unfair
play of any sort, lessons the effective
ness of the individual player and
weakens the work of the whole team"
But the proper antidote for mucker-
ism must rest with the university and
its relation to it's own athletic sports.
In a recent report the president of
Yale University has stated in strik-
ing phrase that the great function of
the university is the fixing of stand
ards. BY the standards which the uni
versity sets, all it's activities of what
ever sort will in the long run be af-
| fected and determined. An institution
may be caught unawares by an out
break of parasitic vulgarity. But the
prevalence and persistence of muck
erism, in athletic sports or elsewhere
indicates a mucker college. And in
every such case the final responsible
ty rests with the Indifference or the
vulgarity of the college faculty, with
the lowness of it's standards or its
failure to fix them at all.
1t is a recognized fact that many
members of our most successful foot
ball teams, in fact most of the men
chosen by our experts for an Gail
American lineup, are professional OF
semi-professional athletes. That is
they are in the college not for educa
ton, but for what they can make out
of the game--taking professional
coaches, rank outsiders" so far as
university standards are concerned
through the patriotism of alumni ant
interested citizens largely gamblers
saloon-keepers and promoters) a goo(
many inducements" can be offered tt
the husky boys of the high schools
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