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

But soccer is more extensively played
and attracts more spectators than all the
other styles combined. Again, soccer is
the only form of all the ones In vogue
that properly can be called football"
as the ball is passed and repassed, in
fact, is solely manipulated. by the feet.
This is a game in which all can take
part whether big or small, whether an
athlete or an undevelOped STRIPPING OF
4 youth, while again, some of the fin
asst professional soccer talent ever turned
out have been on the small side, 80 in
soccer, mere weight and strength count
for naught.
Last season the most dangerous for
ward on the English team in their vari-
Gus international encounters, the forward
who was dreaded most by the opposing
defense, was a diminutive fellow OF 3
feet 2 inches In height and under 100
pounds in weight. That little stripping OF
fellow was the most dangerous player
on the English team, so that he became
a star Of the first magnitude in Soc
GER.
Qualities Demanded.
1t is not necessary to be a giant; the
ordinary person stands a far better chance
than huge, heavily built one. In fact,
the latter is a hindrance, because the
qualities demanded OF a crack soccer
player are speed. agility, good wind and
clever footwork, and the qualities are
generally the attributes Of the ordinary
person. rather than of the giants of $50
pounds and up. : Players of $50 pounds
and up are of very little use in soccer,
as in a hard game the active fellows
of less bulk would soon outplay them and
run them off their feet.
As to the popularity Of soccer on the
other side of the pond, have before me
copy of the Liverpool Echo, and on
the second page are printed the various
positions, such as games played won
drawn and lost, goals for and against
of over 400 clubs in the various anna
teur leagues in the Liverpool distrlc'
alone One amateur league only, the l.
Zingari is composed of AZ clubs, suDdl-
vided into three divisions Of IA clubs each
At the commencement Of the season. TINS
club alone had on its lists over LON
registered players.
This does not include the juvenile and
schoolboy teams in Liverpool, nor the
inuumerable scratch clubs who play only
| occasional matches. The two latter Will
make at least 200 more clubs, WnIe IN
the same locality are at least ~ cIups
| playing Rugby. This Is over 60O CLUBS
playing football regularly every week IN
Liverpool alone, and what applies to Liv-
erpool applies to the whole country.
No Serious Injury.
The season is on for eight solid months
yet no enc ever hears of q fatality. ApOl-
/ ogists for the college game state that all
I
barred from it. but in England thousands
upon thousands OF unframed youths bare
| ly in their teens play soccer regularly
| week in and week out. for continuous
period of somewhere around thirty-fouI
| weeks, and never a fatality, while they
derive, not only fun and recreation, but
also are in process of developing them
selves physically through INDUCING in
| this best and most wholesome Of active
outdoor sports.
Again, of all kinds Of football. soccer
is not only the most spectacular. but
also the most scientific. In regard to
| the latter, Of course I refer to soccer
as played by the big professional league
clubs in England and Scotland, where the
game has been advanced TO an extremely
| high point, where the players act like
parts OF well oiled machine.
Once Americans have made themselves
as skillful as their British cousins in
soccer we will see the crowds here as
great as those that attend the games
across the pond.
Game Draws Well.
On February last there were four
matches in the third round English cup