The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-19

fleets upon the coach. If it loses. shame
is his share.
Now this is most unfair When col
lege baseball team is beaten badly. no
shame is laid upon the professional
coach. At colleges we find track, rowing,
baseball, and other coaches retained for
years. The football coach endures SO
long as he wins games.
Hence. the football team becomes really
the football coach.
The desperate and iamentable wrangie
which wound up the Banes-De Pauw
football game at Handlan's Park on
Saturday last was due 10 the fearful
rivalry. not between the teams. but be-
tween the coaches. Mr.. Cochems, the
very capable coach Of Barnes University,
was lighting to retrieve his reputation,
He knew that If small second year col
/ lege like Barnes could beat an old and
famous and prominent school with a
team of fine repute like De Pauws.
tWould be a great feather in the cap of
Cochems and OF Barnes University. So
Mr. Coehems was eager for his own sake,
no doubt, for other reasons, 10 win,
| Mr. Jasper, the De Paw coach. knew
/ that if his team were beaten by a small
and comparatively unknown college, mis-
reputation would be irretrievably blasted.
So he fought like a fiend TO avoid per-
sonal disaster
| Thus. instead of an exhibition of foot
/ ball between young American gentlemen.
1.-The game became merely an unseenniy
wrangle between two coaches. The shictE-
odd free-born young Americans who took
! part in the game were employed as mere
pawns TO play 10 further the ambitions
of two professional coaches.
! There was no chiyalry or sportsman
ship in the night. Each side resOrted 10
/ the keenest devices of the professional
pugilists 10 achieve victory and 10 avoid
/ defeat.
Footballs Toll Too Heavy.
So, instead Of the game being a fair,
/ manly. generous, and courteous contest
! between gentlemen, it degenerated into a
bitter personal struggle between am
bilious coaches. Courtesy. generosity,
chivalry were thrown 90 the winds. and
/ young college men descended to the
basest devices of the prize ring TO win
or avoid defeat They fought and fouled
and pulled and dragged and abused Of
hcials and each other in most shameful
/ WAYS. Nowhere but on a Rugby football
| field would such an exhibition be pos
sible.
Taken from beginning 10 end, from its
root to the fallen and rotting fruit that
1! lies under It's branches, Rugby football
! seems 70 have absolutely not one claim
on the good will or grace of the Ameri-
can people Il Is an Legitimate product
a cuckoo in the linnet's nest, artificial
unnatural, and unwholesome.
Every year Rugby levies a heavy toll
in killed and injured boys and young mer
in misdirected energy, in unsuostanc,a
! and ill-founded misdireetiOn of true, tnan
Iy craftsmanship and spirit. For his /
does not seem that II In any wise make.
| commensurate return.
Baseball, swimming, hunting, yachting
skating, automObiling, aviation, and othel
| sports and pastines also levy their tol
in killed and injured. But in the cases
of these sports and pastimes the return
in physical power. fitness. and menta
| training is so great that it more thar
compensates for the small taxes they
levy.
Rugby is not game. 1t is really ar
| athletic saturnalia.