The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-31
NEW FOOTBALL
SUCCESS
Claims for New Rules Will Be
Seen Before Season
Is Over.
BY ". 5. FARNsWORTH.


New York, Oct. 30-NeW football is
a success, not Yet a bowling success.
but IL Will be before the season Is
over; OF as soon az the public be
the players and teams get IL down
pat The game is much more en-
tertaining than the old style play, IN
asmuch as il is much more spectacu-
lar and gives the individual star OPP
and skin.
Yale. so far, has had an unsuccessful
year, yet their head coach, the great
Ted Coy, is strong in his admiration
Tor the new game and predicts that
next seasons football VIII be more
popular than ever before.
Not only Is the game more interest
ing TO the spectators. but il is now
game where speed and brains count
more than Drawn ana strength. IL Is
truly a sane game and much SAFER
than the old flying wedge, line buck
ing style we enjoyed al the cost OF
life and limb for so many years.
When the rules committee announced
all threw up their hands and yelled:
a child's game" But since the game
has been put into action under the new
code it has been found that the game
IL is now. game which no fool no
matter what his strength and weight
may be, can play successfully
The first few games played this sea
was on account or the players lacking
experience. The Yale-Army game at
West Point a couple OF weeks ago was
an ideal one and was the first game
of the season 10 substantiate the rules
committees early spring statement
that the game in time would be a sue
cess.
dergraduates, who at first condemned
the new game are now simply dee
lighted" with il. Ursinus, a watering
tank town eleven, defeated them IN the
first game, before the Quakers had
mastered. the new rules, and the stu
dents threw up their hands and yelled
"Putridw and other stronger words
But il didn't dismay the rem codcheS
and they worked and drilled the new
game into the players until now Pennsy
undergrads are the greatest BOOST
ers" in the big college circuit.
Kew football is here 10 stay. ana IN
another year, when everybody becomes
educated in the new style, il Will be
the greatest ever, immense, " ny
didn't the rules committee invent the
game long ago. etc.
Can Yale Come Baeks
They never come back" That may
go in pugilism, but il does not go IN
football In 1904 Yale went 10 West
Point and was defeated by the Army.
Jim Hogan was captain or That ale
eleven and. while the Fellows were IN
the gymnasium dressing after the
game, he called them together ana
said.
BOYS. want every one Of YOU 10
20 out of this dressing room with your
heads in the air and smiling All viii
Yale viii come back" this year,
They may not defeat Princeton, and
there appears little Likelihood OF down
ing the powerful Harvard machine, Vel
they are going to play some grand
football from now on. Those IelloWs
down at New Haven don't know what
.ne.aHa Hnannu In ~
matter is that Yale hasn't the ma
teriaI this season, and while gameness
counts for a whole lot IL doesn't win
against an equally game team which
1t Was not until 1903 that Harvard
ever defeated an average Yale team. The
team OF 1905 was better than average
Yale eleven They had the goods
but the delivery wagon broke down.
In the famous to 90 years, 1887 ana
1899, Yale finally turned out teams
which were just about as strong ana
no stronger than the best New raven
can hope for this year in the closing
games The 1897 team managed 10
squeeze out a TO victory over
Princeton, which was not oVer-strong'
while the 1899 eleven was doWned Dy
Neither OF these teams came any
where near beating the powerful har-
ward eleVens, but. on the Othef hahd'
they were not beaten by Harvard.
defend her goal lines. She has the
greatest OF all teams for defense II
was only by a forward pass That the
Army was able TO cross her line, and
ii begins TO look as If the forward pass
will be the only method any or the
teams can rely upon TO score in the Dig
games 10 come. barring Of course; the
sure-foOted kick from drop or place
ment.
Penn state, as expected, gave
pennsv a severe test in many ways.
BY the way, Penn state has been COM
ing" so fast the past few years that
Yale had to drop her. The table given
below will show how the growth OF
student population through the going
TO COLLEGE habit" has tended 10 level
the ranks of the Big Four. The
present big Six bars freshmen from
Teams and Amherst now bars freshmen
from football.
Amherst e. o.. 526lPrinceton .l,Sss
Bowdoin e.. 81. 4lslLehigh 49, 6Sl
Dartmouth 1.200lTufts o.. .... 428