The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-07

Stanford Likely to Take Lead
and Go Back to Ameri-
can Game.
BY AUSTIN RICE.

The kind of football TO be played by
California and Stanford next season will
probably be determined by one man. That
man is Jimmy flanagan, the Stanford
coach.
Returning from his scrutiny of the re-
cent big matches in the east, he will re-
port whether or not he thinks the new
rules for the American game have les
sened the opportunities for brutality, mass
plays and physical injuries, and whether
or not more open and spectacular con-
test has been. evolved
Ten days ago representative football
players, alumni and members of the fac
ulty assembled at Stanford university TO
discuss the future of football After y
great deal of talk IL was decided to await
Lanagan's report on the appearance ana
results of the new game as played by
the best eastern eXemplars of American
football.
The very fact of that gathering signi-
fled a feeling of dissatisfaction Without
any meeting at all, with neither protest
EOr encOura cement, Rugby would natur-
ally be resumed next season. But when
veterans of the gridiron game and well
Known old alumni were summoned from
a distance to attend that informal CONFER
ence it signified determination among
the students to have their say this time
Will Demand Old Game.
If flanagan shall return favOring the
revised American game the Stanford play
ers may be expected to take DECIDED
stand. They will demand the reSt0ra-
ton of American FOOTBALL as Stanford
game. Their victories in 1904 and 1910
followed by their recent winning OF the
Rugby match. have made them unusual
ly independent down at Stanford. They
feel that they are in a position to decide
the kind of football they want and then
to say to California: You can play our
game or stay out of it, 1t is with some
thing of this attitude that the under
graduates look to flanagan TO indicate a
choice so that they can take their stand:
L. the choice be Rugby, then Rugby IL VIII
be or California will be without an IN
tercollegiate football match. And If their
choice be the old game. it will likely be
that or nothing for the big intercoileglate
match.
Protest Against Rugby.
over at Berkeley there has been a
| pr eater feeling of football discomfort than
| that manifested at Stanford. Letters have
come TO me protesting against Rugby as
| a substitute for the American game Dec
| Iarations have been made by both men
and women students that the recent IN
| tarcolIegiate match at Berkeley was inc
last Rugby game they ever wanted 10 see
| The serum has been ridiculed- The drlb-
/ bling has been sneered at. The uncontroi-
IobIS uncertainty of the game has been
| adv erseIy- criticized Many of the collie
gians want more of the old battle action
/ the intense. ng-dTawn-out agony OF suS-
nense. instead OF the sudden spasms Oh
| hope and disgust peculiar 10 Rugby.
| At the old game you wait Al Rugby
vol, fluctuate But the waiting Is accu-
nluiated enthusiasm ard the fluctuatlns
! is a continuous succession OF little escap-
! ing steam lets that relieve the STRAIN toe
I frequently to permit gradually threaten
ed and keenly hoped for boiler explosion