Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-23


international athletic contests will be the
main feature of amateur sport in 1907 and
/ the coming year promises to be replete
with competitions between the United States
and England. The first of the series will
be the association foot ball match between
teams representing America and England.
| The two countries have met in almost every
branch OF athletics but this win be the
first time that representative soccer"
eevens have faced each other The game
is scheduled to take place on the Crystal
palace grounds, near London, about the
middle Of April. No definite date has been
set for the contest owing to the uncer-
tainty OF the day Of playing OF the final
tie for the English association foot ball
championship. The international match
| will be played on the Saturday preceding
the big British event. Beginning with the
new year the selection committee will pick
out the likely players with the idea of
choosing the strongest possible eleven for
the match While the majority Of the team
win be selected from New York. Phlladel-
phia, Boston, FAN River and Paterson no
locality will be favored for geograp hical
purposes. The players win be selected ac-
cording to merit and the strongest possible
combination will be taken to England.
While II has not been positively deter
mined, it is probable that Fred II. Mines,
the captain OF the Pilgrim team, which
visited America In the fall OF 1906 will be
brought over to this country to give advice
and coach the team for two weeks prior to
sailing for England. Captain Mines has
been invited to coach the team and assured
the promoters that he would do so II pos
sible. He does not anticipate any dlfficulty
In assuming the duties. He will be accom-
| ma NE hxrs Of "a
association foot ball players in England.
who will attend to the physical condition
Of the members OF the team in addition TO
assisting Captain Mines in coaching.
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Foot ball as played under the new code,
has won the unqualified approval OF Yale
men, and no changes are advocated for an
other year az least. In speaking OF the
season, the Yale Alumni Weekly says, IN
part
II any one thing stood out in special
prominence at the two final Yale games
last month, II was the much desired proof
that critics said was needed for the re-
! tention OF the game, that foot bah can be
; played IN a sportsmanlike spirit. This must
have been apparent to the thiTty-Odd thou.
sand spectators OF the Yale-Harvard game
as Il was apparent 20 the few on both side
, lines who knew what was going on In the
! scrimmages. II was not only vindicatioI
OF the new rules: Il an answer to the
; criticisms that had been made OF the game
throughout the country. both Ia the press
81 and from academic chairs. II the judgment
Of the majority OF the men who make the
daily papers and who are influential In uni
E versity life counts for anything, foot bal
, has been lifted out of the run into which
, Il had fallen and has been saved
. Any game that Is worth playing Is worth
i playing for the game itself and not for the
immediate Joy OF winning. AS It was playe,
this year under the new rules foot ball wa
a game worth playing by any set Of youus
| American college men-Worth PLAYING fol
u the sport OF playing II. for the touch ant
b | go % opposed skill and spirits. for IN,
4 | sheer human JOY OF pitting heetness anC
| strength and quick thinking and cOncen
4 | trated plan and action against the SAM
, | heetness and strength and brain agility o
2 | an opponent There was too little oppor
| tunity for this sort OF thing In the old Zoo
2 BAN IN that Eame. now happily history