The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-11-06

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= clcs Men who have been Interested
! i'm sport do not recall It similar ,u,o
' in high school football
The Facts IN the Case.
The facts in the ,a,o are that eleven
mcmbCrs of the Norfolk football team.
all of course high school boys. were
taken sicl, either during the game or
| Immediately afterwards other Nor.
folk people who stopped at the Madt.
son hotel, where the football team res.
! istcrod. were similarly attacked Soy
Cral persons who did not eat certain
articles, especially gravy were not
ON the hospital list.
Interest in the Game Intense.
Interest in the Standardization
game last Saturday was intense In
Madison Madison takes its football
very seriously, as Ct shuuiu, and felt
kccnly the carly season defeat Som"
money was stakcd on the game, the
wagCrs being between Madison PEG.
pie. The game was won by Madison,
| 10 to ., in the second half.
40 one in Norfolk who is familiar
with the facts believes that the man.
agcmcnt of the Madison team was in
any way implicated in the affair. Who.
| if anyone, Is to blame is question
which Madison herself has been asked
to determine
No is)uting the Facts.
That the Nurfulk football player,
| a.. 4 ,,I
OF eating an ordinary dinner at the
| Madison hotel cannot be disputed.
| And other dinner guests among the
| young people and teachers vino accom-.
| panied the team We're also taken sick.
| And it was only the Saturday dinner
that was productive of these results.
Those who took supper AT the hotel
but did not take dinner were in their
usual health. The responsibility either
rests upon the hotel or ON some out.
side party or upon both.
How the investigation Arose.
An investigation of that Madison
dinner was not taken up until school
met the first of this week, when
stories arising after the game were
sirtcd. Before anything was admitted
| the local school authorities made as
thorough an investigation as could be
made from hero. Last night they ad.
mittcd that an outline of the situa-
tiun had been sent to Madison.
No More Madison Games.
Athletic relations with the Madison
high school may be broken off as a re
1,,t.t S,,i,, ,I.,,
Nor will relations between the two
schools be taken up again unless il
can be shown that the very strong suS
pcion that the Norfolk boys were
"dopcd" last Saturday is untOunded.
This does not mean that Norfolk's
charges fall on the Madison higN
school 1t does mean, and the high
school management makes the state
mCnt emphatic. that Norfolk school
boys will not be taken any place where
there is a suspicion that they will be
"dopcd" or in any way treated I'M
fairly.
No complaint is made against the
general treatment accorded the Nor
folk eleven at Madison.
Sick Team Lost the Game.
A sick team lost the game, b'C it Is
not charged in Norfolk that the team
lost the game because they were sick.
Tho game was played under adverse
circumstances.
1t is fact, however, that Madison
did not more than once in the first
half, save OH a fluke and once on a
trick play, gain her downs" and that
in the second half the Madison eleven
walked through the Norfolk boys at
their will.
Athletics in the High School.
Athletics in the Norfolk high school
are run on lines that are both strict
and clean. 1t is an encouraging fact
that they are leading the high school
boys to greater interest in the nigh
school and to even greater interest in
the high school studies. Care has been
taken to keep athletics in bounds and
along conservative lines which would
win the general approval of the pub
lie. The Madison incident is Il MAJ
, on the Norfolk record that the SChOo
! authorities intend to see doesn't hap
| pen again.