The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27

where the attendance passed the 300
mark, the highest being at Newcastle
where 64.2n persons paid for admission,
while over AZ 900 attended a league match
in Manchester. In other words, five at
tendances on one Saturday Of over 45,OOO
at each place. The greatest crowd that
ever attended a Yale-HarYard game was
4, 600 some four years ago.
So far as attendances go, soccer has
them all beaten to fragile. During
the last ten years the final tie English
cup has been attended by over A0,UJJ
spectators on three occasions, the record
being in 1850, when 1852 paid for ad-
mission owing TO the fact that London
club appeared as one OF the finalists,
but the record for attendance at soccer
is held IN Scotland, where In April, l0e,
121 ,S2S persons actually paid TO witness
the international twixt Scotland and
England, the game being played on the
then new enclosure OF the Queens Park
club, Hampden, Glasgow, II being the
finest and most up-tO-date football arena
in the world.
Soccer is now played on every conti-
nent on this globe Of ours. II is played
in the lev north, also on 'Indias coral
strands" the hot plains of Egypt, on
the hinterlands of civilization wherever
there is a British garrison, the game is
played, and also is extensively played
| in Australasia. South Africa and the Ar
gentine Republic. Last March the COrin-
thians, a famous London amateur team,
returned from touring Brazil and the Ar
! gentine Republic, and now powerful
| team composed Of professionals and anna
teurs is making ready to tour South Al
RIGA.
International matches are now played
regularly 'twixt England and teams rep
resenting France, Holland, Belgium, Den
mark, Scandinavia, Germany, Switzer-
| land, Austria and Hungary, and soccer
football, through its international
matches, has done more in engendering
| peace and good will, also good understand
/ ing with the various peoples, in fact
/ has drawn them closer together, than
has the arts or acts Of the political dip
/ lOmatists.
Utah In Line.
! A club which deserves to be highly
| commended is the Soccer Boosters club
of Salt Lake, and It is high time Utah
| fell in line with the rest. The club viii
| have done the state good service If they
! succeed in getting the faculty OF the pub
| lie schools to adopt the game this COM
/ ing fall. There is far more fun ana en-
/ joyment for the kids in the soccer game
/ than can be had in the college one, and
/ they will find more pleasure IN trying
/ to dTibble the ball than there IS IN car
! rying it, and, once the youngsters have
caught on there viii be no holding them.
Every public school could easily put
/ three or four teams in the field and, when
[ 1t comes TO expense six soccer teams
can be Outfitted for the cost Of one play
ing the college Rugby game, as in SOC
I Ger no padded pants, elbow, nose and
head guards are needed Ninety per cent
Of the players even dispense with shin
| guards.
Another thing, players intending TO fol-
low the college game will better them
! selves training for college Rugby by
| playing soccer. as where college players
are woefully weak is in the kicking
! department Soccer viii develop good
/ kickers for college Rugby.
There is plenty Of room IN Utah for
! both college football and soccer. No need
of any warning or falling out; they can,
/ If need be develop and grow side By side,
and II is possible TO become expert in
both, but if the faculties Of certain schools
I have put the ban on the intercollegiate
/ style Of football OF account of undue
! roughness. il is unfair to the youths OF
/ the state TO be denied one Of the best
| of outdoor sports, and by all means SOC
Ger should be given a fair trial. and in
some future time. should the college game
! be reinstated both codes should dwell ana
/ thrive amicably together.
! Garfield, Utah. JOHN MORGAN.