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From the Cleveland News.
Coach Yost OF Michigan is what we
would call a resourceful cuss. If he can't
make his foot bail Varlets get there i'll
one way he tries another. YoSt began his
career as a tutor in the art o. manning
without killing back in 1897 at Ohio Wes-
leyan. Yes, YOU had forgotten it, but
Iost oHce coached our Methodist friends
down at Delaware. and in that same
year fost beat the Michigan eleven that
he now trains-that is, he beat an eleven
representing the Wolverines.
This il how it was: Yost had finished
his course at the University of West Viz
ginia in 1896. He went to Della ware His
brother played the Wesleyan team.
Yost had fair eleven. He took them
up TO Ann Arbor
Yost was young then and unknown and
more Scrdppy than at present He con-
ceiVed brilliant idea. He would trade
places with his brother. and he did
Coach Iost played tackle for Wesleyan.
and Player foSt ran up and down the
side lines. pulled his hair, beat the air
with his fists and in other ways initiated
Il foot ball teacher in action. Ohio IVES
leyan won by one touchdown.
Possibly that is what made Michigan
take an interest in the freckled one
After his year at Wesleyan Yost tutored
the SrldderS at Nebraska, Kansas ana
Leland Stanford. He joined forces with
Michigan i'll 1901 and has been with the
Wolverines ever since
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YOUTH TO THE FORE
Rating of Lawn Tennis Play
ers Puts New Names in Front.
lARNED STILL THE LEADER
Experts. However. Place Bundy a
Close Second. With McLough-
lin and Wright Next.
LARNED STILL THE LEADER

Lawn tennis performers OF The tourna-
ment campo igninS class reap more real
reward from high rating on the annual
list than they co by winning champion
ship. The moment the season is at an
end the interest is intense in its specula-
ton as to the honor roll of the first ten
Those are the coveted positions, but to
rank inside of the first fifteen or twenty
names at the top easily establishes a
PLAYER as one of the foremost men in
this country.
The name of William Augustus Larned,
the six times winner of the national cham
pionship. again must top the list But l.
is the places Immediately following that
count Dr. Phillip 5. Hawk superintendent
the ranking of the men on their merit last
season and the work OF his committee
proved remarkably satisfactory Ii shouid
be the same this year. The present COM
mittee includes Edwin +. Torray OF New
York, Miles S. Charlook OF the Crescent
Athletic Club and Harry Terrence of the
EngIewood Field Club
The thing that strikes forcibly the re-
viewer of the seasons performance OF the
men is the pushing forward of the Can-
fornians on the one hand. and OF the
newer aspirants for championship honors
OH the other OF the latter class. Tor III
stance, there Is Dean MdtheN Oi Prince
ton. Reuben \. Holden OF Yale. T. IL.
whitney of Harvard. who came close
10 defeating BealS & w right in the all
Corners AZ Newport, and that young and
brilliant player of the south. Conrad b
DOVE TIE retrospect of the season as
these names loom large among the lead
e~s gives inspiration and in it, measure,
40 ace for the regret which followers OF
the sport feel because the year marks the
retirement of so many of the veterans
who have long held the premier positions
Larned Is Supreme.
Of course. as the number one OF the list.
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ode Foot Ball Originated in England Among Secondary Schools

home will be forgotten nor honorable
Difference not paid to the sweeping
sward OF Old Bigside at Rugby.
Organized Foot Ball.
This famous school was founded in
1867. The origin Of organized foot ball
among it's boys is located in the eight
| zenith century. but the precise period
has passed into oblivion, with those
| who participated. One of the farthest
and most authentic reaches into the
past is contained in the recollections
of Matthew Bloxam, published in the
Rugby Meteor for December, 1880. Mat
thew Bloxam was at Rugby in 1913 Writ
ing of foot ball in his time. he says: 1.-THE
procedure at Bigside OF foot ball was as
| follows: When all had assembled in the
close. two OF the best players in the
school commenced choosing in, one for
each side. After choosing in. about
score on each side, a somewhat rude d.
vision was made Of the remaining flags,
half OF whom were sent to keep goal on
one side the other half to the opposite
goal for the same purpose. Few and
on the sides of the ground was marked
out and no one was allowed to run with
the ball in his grasp toward the oppO-
site goal. 1t was foot ball and not hand
ball. with plenty OF hacking, but little
struggling"
From this description it appears that
foot ball up to Matthew Bloxam's time
had been developing along lines similar
to those at Westminster and elsewhere.
particularly as to the rule against car
rying the ball. But there came a crisp
November day in 1923. over a hundred
boys had gathered for Bigside. The game
soon was in action and backward and
forward surged the ball. but without
score. The time wore until at last
the school bell trembled the first
stroke of five, the hour which terminated
the game. A long sailing punt was sent
down the field. the last effort Of one side
to effect a score. Suddenly out from the
mass of players upon the other side
sprang young RuEebian by the name
Of William Webb Ellis. With arms out
stretched and eyes keenly on the spinning
bali he swiftly ranged into position to
catch the punt. II he made and heeled
it under the rules. he might fall back.
behind his mark, and try for goal by q
free kick. BY violent effort he StoopS
and catches the ball just as it is about
to strike the ground. The opponents
check their speed in order not TO inter-
fere with the catch and heel. but Ellis,
with the inspiration OF desperation. con-
trery to rule and custom with increased
speed leaps onward Five clock is now
pealing on the air. With the ball tight
the ranks Of his opponents, who anger
ed by this fragrant vio!s ton OF the rules,
roughly seize him and endeavor to throw
him to the ground. Ellis, With his free
arm, wards them off and zigzagging in
and out clears the pack and crosses the
line Just as the last stroke OF 5 comes
reverberatng over the close.
In those days contested points. disputed
games and changes in the rules were re-
ferred to q school judicatOry known as
levee Of Bigside, which was held by the
foot ball leaders under the elms between
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SCHOOL JUDICATORY HAD
SUPERVISION OVER GAMES
William Webb Ellis of Oxford Made First
Sensational Run, Contrary to
Rule and Custom.

wide foot ball posterity the name and ex-
plot of this school boy genius. II runs
as follows:
THIS STONE
COMM EMORATES THE EXPLOIT
OF WILLIAM WEBB ELLIS.
Who With a Fine Disregard for the
Rules of Foot Ball as Played in His
Time, First Took the Ball in His
Arms and Ran With II. Thus Origi-
mating the Distinctive Feature OF the
Rugby Game.
A. d. 1893.
From ISL. the year of the exploit Of
William Webb Ellis. TO the time OF the
great game of School-House versus
School. described in 1T ON Browns School
Days" is a space of twenty years. but in
this period the Bigside Levies at Rugby
built about the run Of Ellis finished.
finely technical game Its perfection
best may be appreciated and certainly
the most pleasantly ascertained by now
reverting to boyhood and reading once
more the description of this game in
Judge Thomas Hughes great book, which
here is abridged:
old Brooke won the toss with his
lucky half-penny and got the choice of
goals and kickoff. But now look. there
is slight move forward of the School
House wings shout Are you ready
and a loud affirmative reply. Old Brooke
takes half dozen steps and away goes
the bail spinning toward the goal, sew
enty yards before it touches the ground,
a model kickoff. The School-House
cheer and rush on. The ball is returned.
They meet it and drive il back among the
masses in motion. Then follows rush
upon rush and scrummage upon serum
mage, and a scrummage. gentlemen, in
a SchOol-House match was no joke in the
conSulship of Plancus. Three-quarters
of an hour are gone. first winds are fail
ing and weight begins to tell. The School
House are being pressed now and the ball
is behind their goal. There is minute $
breathing time before Old Brooke kicks
out and he gives the word to play strong
" for touch Away goes the ball and
in another minute there is a shout of
In touch and Our ball Old Brooke
stands with the ball in his hands while
the two sides form in deep lines Oppo-
site one another.
'He must strike it straight out be
tween them. Old Brooke strikes it
strong. Hurrah. That rush has taken
it right through the School line. far
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the ball behind it's own goal where it
was touched by an opponent a rouge
was scored. A rouge entitled a team to
free kick at goal, and three rouges
equaled a goal.
On the 18th Of November. 1873. a
team Of Etonians under the captaincy of
G. c. Allen came to New Haven and
played game with Yale Those, in
deed. were primitive times. since it was
Yale's second season at the game. The
contest was waged under mixed rules
one Of which called for eleven. players
and was won by Yale. -Four years later
when Harvard, Princeton and Yale adopt
ed the Rugby Union game, Yale insisted
that the Elton number of eleven should
modify the Rugby rule of fifteen. This
proposition was defeated but was re-
newed each year thereafter with great
vigor by Yale until finally, in 1890. Wal
ter Camp. Yale's delegate, succeeded in
rersuading the convention to adopt the
Elton rule.
There are many places in England so
endeared to Americans by the ties of
sentiment that we feel an ownership
therein by the titles of fancy if not
by the titles of actual fact. Where is
the lover of letters that does not claim
an interest in the town of Avon? Where
is the lawyer that does not believe that
he possesses an inalienable right in
the Inns of Court? Where is the foot
ball man from field. side line or stand
who does not feel that he is an heritOr
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I'm height. Along this wall on the school
side originated and still is played the
famous wall game OF Eton. The ground
for the game was laid off by drawing
furrow in the turf parallel to the wall
and six yards distant. Eighteen yards
from either end OF the wall was painted
perpendicularly upon it a white line, the
space thus cut off being called calx. Be
yond one calx formerly stood an elm;
beyond the other a door in a transverse
wall. These two objects, the elm and
the door, constituted the goal. In this
long, narrow space between the wall and
the furrow the two great teams of Elton.
the Collegers and the Oppidans, annually
nave met upon ST. Andrews day since
1Sf3. The players. numbering eleven upon
side. put the hall in play by a scrim-
mage against the wall, by them called
bully. Out of the bully the ball was
forced by kicks until il was driven into
calx. where the offensive eleven by
most peculiar play, too intricate for de-
scription here endeavOred to obtain q
fair shy which was a free kick AT
goal BY reason of the great difficulty
in hitting the goals these contests usu-
ally were decided by the number o. SHES
obtained.
When Eton finally obtained an extern
sive playing field another game called
the field game was devised although
the wall game has never been abandoned.
AS one might expect, the field game was
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into their quarters. The School lesd->
ers rush back shouting. Look out in
goal. They strain every nerve 10
catch young Brooke. who has the ball
but they are after the feetest foot in
Rugby There they go straight for the
goal posts. Young Brooke is down!
No, long stagger. but the danger is
past. There is a hurried rush and
young Brooke has touched IL right un-
der the School goal posts. The School
leaders are furious. They may We'll
be. for il is Lombard street to a china
orange that the School-House kick a
good place OLD Brooke OF course will
kick II, but who shall catch and place
it? Call Crab Jones Here he comes.
the coolest fish in Rugby. Old Brooke
motioning the School back He viii
not kick it until they are all in goal
behind the posts. They are ali edg
ing forward inch by inch for the rush
at Crab Jones. who stands in front OF
Old Brooke to catch the ball. II they
can reach him before he catches
the ball the danger is over and
with one and the same rush
they win carry it right away to
the School-House goal Fond hope.
1t is kicked out and caught beautifully.
Crab strikes his heel in ground ID
mark the spot where The bal il
caught beyond which the School line
may not advance but there they stand
the ball touches the ground. Take
plenty of room. Place il true aud
steady. Trust Crab Jones for that. lie
is resting on one knee with his eye on
Old Brooke. Now, Crab places the
ball at the word. The School rush for
ward. Old Brooke kicks. A moment
pause and both sides look at the
spinning ball. 1t flies straight be-
tween the posts. five feet above the
cross-bar. shout of joy rings on;
from the School-HouSe players-up and
faint echo of il comes over the Close
from the goal keepers. \ goal in the
first hour. Such a thing hasn't been
done in the School-House match these
five years.,
After all. is not the author OF this
famous game of fancy likewise en-
titled to place in the hearts of foot
ball men with William Webb Ellisi
The one performed deed which gave
great game to Rugby. The other
wrote book which popularized that
game and gave il to the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
By Parke H. Davis.
az the intercollegiate I;uicS Committee
tCcpyright. 1910. Ky PaTbc ~. navis.l

,Copyrigbt. 1910. Ky PaTkc II. Davis.l
Foot ball was brought into England by
the Romans. Although ii played
generally throughout Britain century
after century, il was not until 1850 that
the sport began to evolve from crude.
simple paStime into an organized. tech
meal game. The honor of the invention
OF modern foot ball belongs 10 the great
secondary schools CT England, To Char
terl.ouse. Elton. Forest. liza row. Shrews-
bIry, Westminster, Winchester and 9th
srS As for the universities. foot ball
was not adopted by Cambridge and OK
ford until 49,. several wears after 1t
had become an established intercollegiate
sport even in America. AntiquarieS have
mined many a romance out Of the evoiu-
ton of the serious institutions o. life
Let us ascertain If something of similar
interest may not be found in its sports
TIE Development of foot ball from d
mere sport without rules a. sanitation
by these schools irto q highly specialized
game was wholly inartificial At no time
during its formative period was held an
interscholastic convention or even a con-
ference between two schools. The idea
of an interschoIas contest did not Oc-
cur until years after the perfection of
The game. This unexpected circumstance
10 due TO the fact that each schooi orig
mated q style OF game peculiar to itself
and found sufficient entertainment in the
struggles of teams organized within its
own walls. y prime factor III the forma-
ton OF each game was the facilities or
difficulties presented in the place of play.
for the modern playground. ample and
uniform. was not fixture of foot ball
liz primitive times Although the num-
Der Of these different games is equal To
the number of the schools. they easily
may be divided into three general classes.
pest typitied at Westminster, Eto1: and
Rugby. II is d circumstance of more
than incidental interest that each one
OF these schools has contributed its best
and most characteristic feature 10 the
evolution of intercollegiate foot ball i'll
America.
At Westminster the crowded conditions
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GRIDIRON GAME INTRODUCED
INTO ENGLAND BY ROMANS
American Formation of Eleven Men Indebted
to Eton-First Contest
at Yale.

of life in The heart of London evolved
long prior to 100 an indoor game OF
foot BAH. played in the cloisters OF West
minister Abbey. A stone pavement lay
under foot pillars walls and gates stood
al either hand, and a low arched ceiling
extended overhead. yet this was the YER
liable cradle of the modern game of foot
ball Here John Dryden in 1916, Mat
thew Pryor in 1880 and Joseph Addison
i'm 1881 led the Schoolboy forces. Indeed
the records of the abbey disclose that
either they their comrades led so bois-
terously that the dean of Westminster
forced 10 appoint beadle to keep
them quiet during divine service. The
came in clois;er as it was called. was
not intricate. Two goals. known as
bases. and prohibition against the use
OF the hands either upon opponents or
upon the ball comprised the traditional
old buildings near the abbey were re-
moved. aud the space thus obtained be-
came the deans yard but the boys
promptly pre-empted ii for playground
and named II the Green. With this &C
QUESTION two games came into being at
Westminster. the game in cloister and
the game in green. In the latter game
the goals were base lines equal to the
entire width of the green. In addition
to the prohibition against the use of the
hands II new restriction was invented
which was called "outsidng." This re-
striction was identical with what today
is known as 'off-Side play.
The history of the game at Charter
house another London school, is similar
To that of Westminster. the game evolv
ing first in coisters and with the advent
of a play ground being transferred to the
green. Consequently the game at each
school almost was identical. This CIR
cumstance suggested in the fall Of 1868
an interschO.aStic game. This game, the
first contest between schools colleges OF
universities I'm the history of foot ball.
was played at Vincent Square and was
won by Westminster by two goals to
T one
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ter, smoothness in feeding the ball to the
runner was a marked characteristic of
the combinations that paired off Holt
and Rockwell, Bull and Williams, Torrey
and Stevenson. Ballet and King Phillips
and Dillon, and Nourse and Cutler. Dart
mouths back field four of 1908, Marks,
Hawley. Ingersoll and Pishon. ranked
high, and the Princeton quartet of 1893
was an evenly balanced and fine all
around group. taking in King, Ward,
Morse and Blake. Naturally in these
groups of four there have been brilliant
pairs Of halfbacks, such as Osgood and
kripe, and in that pairing Chadwick and
MetcaR. Yale. 1902, belong. They were
light. but swift as the wind, quick and
accurate in taking openings, and fine on
the defense. Two of the best line break
ers that ever played on the same team
together were ButterwOrth and Thorne.
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Littleside and Bigside. or at times on an
other part Of the grounds called the Is
land. The sensational performance of
Ellis was severely censured generally
throughout the school, but as days came
and went there arose few who saw III
his exploit an opportunity for a great
innovation in the game. After a time
the idea was supported by a majority of
the school. and at last received the sane
ton of a Bigside levee.
At first the privilege of carrying the
ball was limited to balls obtained from
fair catches in the manner performed by
Ellis. Later the privilege was extended
to ball caught on the bound and finally
the right to run with the ball without
restriction was incorporated as basic
rule in the Rugby game.
The performance of William Webb Ellis.
like the exploits of all other heroes, as
time passed was questioned by the scoffer
and iconoclast and by some was denied
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Iarned is supreme. He stands out clear
ly in the field of American lawn tennis
players s has 10 other player Of the past.
Larned. il may ne allowed is possibly not
country has ever produced. and yet there
is no champion of our years who has sus-
tanned his laurels SO ably nor one who has
made his position so impregnable and
fortified game of persiStency and
strength 10 the place where it will in
deed need a lawn tennis genius to over
come him. Following Larned most close
ly and by all admittedly. the number Two
is Thomas G. Bunny. that wonderful little
Napoleon of the courts hailing from Cali
fornia. whose record for the season gives
point 10 the belief that at no distant
date will the American honors be shifted
FROM the Atlantic TO the Pacific coast.
Not only in playing through number
of tournaments did Bundy show that he
was able to sustain his game longer and
with telling effect than many OF the
eastern men. but the fact that he con-
Sistentlv outgeneraled them and won
spienGidly in the west we'll as in the
east surely places him next to the veteran
champion.
Maurice E. Mclaughlin, Beals c. Wright
and Melville TT. Long are respectively
named for third place. Except for some
brilliant playing in the west and on hard
surfaced courts. pre-emnently his win
of the United States and the Pacific coast
title Long must necessarily be eliminated,
although il would appear that had he
competed in the last this year his rank
ing might easily have been of the first
five. Narrowing the selection TO NcLOugh-
lin and Wright. there would seem ade-
uuate reasons. because of his more eX-
tended performance upon the courts of
this country. for placing the Young Cali
fornian third. with BealS Wright fourth.
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Centers and Quarterback.

There is nobody to be paired off with
the center. AS there is only one Of him
as Iineman. he is lonely child so far
one of three, the center trio, and also in
a way has a teammate in the quarter
back. That there be smooth teamwork
between him and the quarterback is
vital 10 the success of team. Chasing
him with the Hnemen. noted center trios
have been McCrea. Hicllok and Stillman
of Yale: Wharton Woodruff and Bull of
Pennsylvania; Edwards Crowds and
Both of Princeton; Brown. Sheldon and
Yale; O ROurke. Thompson and Bill New
man of Cornell: Meyer. Wright and Sling
huff of the Navy. and Heffelfinger, Nor
rison and Sanford of Yale, Bull. New
man, Overfield, Slingluff and Sanford
we're as active as any of their linemen
and made as many plays in the open.
There have been stellar back field pairs,
trios and Quartets Harvard had a COM
bination in 1880 which could do Well
Lee and Corbett. The Princeton quartet
in 1889 was wonder for speed--Chan-
ming, Poe, Lamar and Ames, a slippery
group. Barbour, Bliss, McClung and Nc
Cormick. Yale. 1891, combined every
known means of gaining ground, while
Williams. Osgood. knipe and Brooke of
PENNSYLVANIA represented rare puntng
skill. line breaking proves, and speed
and clusiveness in a broken field; so did
the Harvard combination Of 189s-Reid,
DAILY. Dibblee and Warren. Likewise
Jones. Vecder Knox and Morse. Yale,
1906. The backs were there and the
quarterback with the generalship to get
most out of the forces at his command.
AS between the center and the quar-