The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-02
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL; RANGERS THE CHAMPIONS League Awards Them Chal- lenge Duplicating
 Last Night. FIRST GAME ON SUNDAY With Bridgeport at, the Park City-Line Up of the
 Rangers Team.
FIRST GAME ON SUNDAY
(By James Mustarde.) )

Association football is pushing rapid ly to the front as a popular sport in this country. For some reason or otn- CT it has never taken hold of the American lovers of outdoor games as its merits really deserve. Ass 0ciation football easily takes the lead amongst outdoor sports in England and Scot land. Every Saturday throughout the season, hundreds of thousands pay ad- mission to witness the contests, and at the last international match be- tween England and Scotland 10000 people witnessed the game, IA game that has such a drawing tendency in any country must therefore have more than ordinary merit to it, Association teams consists of eleven players who are designated as follows; Goal tender, two backs, three halfbacks and five forwards. The game is fast and the nlay is open. It is football pure and simple. Science has added many points which have made it doubly interesting to watch. There is no brutal or vicious play seen in the game. The men come on the field with no other protection than the simple shin guard and form a great contrast from the appearance that the coilere men make when they step on the griG,ron, looking as they do more like warriors armed for a fray than that of friendly combatants who are to decide their supremacy on the football field. Association football has much to commend 1t and within few years it Is safe to predict that the sport will be as popular in the States as 1t now is in the old country New Haven this season will in all likeli- hood be represented by at least three
 teams. Yale Is expected to furnish g
 fast, eleven this year, and will play 1T
 the series arranged for the college
 championship. The team will have tht
 support of the Athletic association anc also that of the students in general
 Games will be played with- Harvard Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, BroWr and other colleges.
 The New Haven Rangers, who wor the state championship last year, have again been organized and they expect to turn out a couple of strong teams and both may be entered in the league which will comprise Bridgeport, An sonia, two teams, Waterbury, Nauga- tuck, Walingford, Danbury and Meri- den. Home games will be played and each team will be credited with two points for a Win and one point for drawn game. At the close of the sea son the team gaining the most points will be awarded the cup and also the championship of the state The Rang CTS also expect to be able to arrange matches with strong teams from New l York, Boston and Rhode Island. James II. Murray, the president of the Rang. 1 CTS club said that they expected tc have a very strong team this season | He also expects that they will be abl ! to get on a match with the Yale clever l before the season opens. The Ranger | expect to play their games this sea | son on O'Connells' grounds. The officers | of the Rangers club are as follows: l President, James H. Murray. | NlVe-preSldent, IHollaS A'oS"SA
 Secretary, David Wyllie.
 Treasurer, Al. George,
 The team will line up for their frs l game, which will be played about th' mladle of the month, as follows; Goal-shanks.
 Backs-Black (captain) and Falcon
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 Halfbacks -Gcoage, Miller, Dalgleish
 Forwards Clark Valentine, Smith
 Fraser and scott.
 l The above team will play in the frs l game which takes place at Brldgepor on Sunday. The team will travel iron
 this city by the F o'clock train. large contingent will go down iron 1 t1ls citu tn witness the game.