Evening journal., 1906-11-24
WILL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
BE DECIDED TO-DAY ?
Western Teams Have Failed
to Show Class This
Season

To-day viii probably not tell the
story of the football championship atter
ali. Yale and Harvard meet at New Haven
in what is really the anai college game or
the season. and. OF course, IL Harvard
wins the Crimson viii be entitled to the
championship.
cridlron dope, however points 10 a4le'
and II Yale wins then Princeton VIII oe
in on the honors.
As TO the claims Of Wcsterners this
year. Chicago thinks 1t has 4 great team,
nr4,ring the win Of Minnesota a huke.
Here's the dope ON Chicago. Harvard, b;
Carlisle. O. Carlisle. n Minnesota @.
Minnesota. a: Chicago. .. on that basis
Harvard would trim Chicago about A to
nix. evidently this is a bad year west of
the Alleghanies.
The season which is Just closing has
been fairly successful. after the game re-
ceived the hardest kind OF knocks. The
attendance was excellent and up 70 the
standard of previous years, without the
same caliber OF attractions.
In looking over the season and consid-
ering the new game, two points are ap-
parent-the new game Is made only for q
dry. fast field.
The new rules have failed absolutely IN
their announced purpose of lessening the
injuries attendant upon football
TO be used successfully the new rules
apply only when the aeld Is fast, 4 team
which knows only plays built around th,
new rules is helpless when II comes to
playing In the mud. leverv game played
IN the mud has been won under Old-styl,
football
It has been discovered that the forward
pass is most hazardous play ana likely
to net the opponents as much gain as Il
does the side using IL.
The beauties Of the new rules he almost
entirely IN the kicking end Of the game
Kicking has reached an importance n
never held before. Drop ldciSers have beer
developed all over the country. ana tn,
percentage Of goals from the field com.
pares favorabiy with touchdowas.
As 10 the injuries there have beer
just as many reports OF men disabled al
ever before, and two teams nave lost thei
star players from broken limbs
Soukop Of Wisconsin and Captain Jol
Curtis OF Michigan suffered such injuries
Open ficld tackles arc always more or lef
likely to result IN broken bones The re
formers OF the game clamorod for In
open style OF play as being less dangerous
not knowing what they were fgllSlnl
about The open style of football has al
ways resulted in more injuries than clos
formations and probably always viii.
The close formation game followed
reform which ruled out flying wedges an,
similar running plays, because they wor
too destructive
On the whole the iew rules nave ac
complshed one good thing. There is no
the premium on heavyweights that ex
listed under the old rules. The inateria
for a Varsity eleven IS Increased by thi
fact, and FOR this alone the new rules a.
worth while.
This is one Of the many reforms tn
new rules we're designed TO bring abou
that they have actually accomplished.
Lighter lines can be used safely an
more successfully than ever befor,
Coaches this year who feared to try
llght man IN the line while they had som
big bulky fellows. win see that they ca
use a wiry i7O-pounder just as advantag,
ously as they can a e00-pound mountain.