The Washington herald., 1911-10-29

pered with the soft voice of the mourning
dove. Overhead the sun blazed its way pitt
less!v through the desert atmosphere in which
no cloud oasis might show again for another
fortnight.
Clear cut in The dazzling light every rock and
on the sides Of he depths Of the Grand Canyon
defined with the sharpness - seal. On the brink Of
the biggest scratch that God Almighty has ever made
in the earth" ArlzOnian put it,. there a
shack containing photograph gallery
Within the gallery there hundreds of
of the wonderful wonderland the canyon The
were covered with photographs. plain and -oored.
and there were shelves and tables which were flied
with them.
Over in there a photograph Of
saIwart youth in football costume. One looE at the
face one glance AT the tousIed has. review of
the stalwart figure and it was enough to know that
"BilT' GOebel of Yale fame, was not stra to the
far off desert land.
How did you happen TO have this?' asked of the
photographer ascertaining that he was fearless
athlete himself who was wont to swing around the
sides of the canyon suspended by rope. with two
three thousand feet of under bis feet solely
that he might make negatives of the beauties Of the
chasm.
Everybody knows Goe5"I out here" was the reply.
HE comes from these parts. l don't remember just
bow happen to have picked it but. bless me, you
can't go much of anywhere around without hearing
about what .Rir Gopbcl did Yale on the football
team When Yale +; PLAYING football and Bill Is going
to college he would be he lisecst candidate for
Governor is only we had State. You see, Arizona
never has had much chance to distinguish Itself III
the East aud when Goebel got as far as Yale and not
only became member of the football team but got his
name in all of the big Eastern newspapers folks
ont here began to look up and take notice, although
7 don't suppose there are fifty Of them who know
much about football.
did YOU ever hear Of Morley Of Coumbia"'
"Ob YES people at the hotel occasionally talk foot
hall. and know that Morley belongs in this State
over on the other side of the canyon They say that
he was about as big in his way G"ebeL Morley
has a ranch somewhere around The Navajo ReSerVa-
+ion while GoebeI comes from down Phoenix way as
recall it, never heard of any football being played
out this way they talk about it almost as II they
knew all about the game. You see we nave NlSl'orS
here from our own Territory well as from almost
all other parts of the world because this happens to
be about the handieSt place that you can find to get
look the canyon unless you are Foughns H. ana
want to cross it on one Of the trails
In the shops and the stores Of California cities
there hang football ''togs.' and in the windows OF
the big stores in Denver there were moleskns ana
nose guards. and away out on one Of the high pIa-
teaus of the Rocky Mountains, in Colorado, where
the snow was the peaks. there were the unmis-
taxable two posts and the crOSsbar Of the football
field
All Of which leads the fact 'Ht foobalI-not the
original game but football in America-is the most
remarkable demonstration Of the development OF a
sport both in popular interest and players in the his
tory of our big country and perhaps in the world
Not even baseball went through the United States
so much like wildhre football. That may sound a
little unnatriotic because baseball is looked upon as
the national game bur it is a fact which cannot be
disputed.
Long before there any football games played
in the West Yale Princeton and Harvard were play
ing in the East They did not play the kind of foot
ball that they play now although they did play the
embryo American game
The American idea of football was to take up
Rugby and try improve upon it to suit American
notions Of what game should be- and i'll spite of the
fact that there been much adverse criticism of
football it is the general impression that the Amer
lean game far ahead of the old fashioned Rugby,
and this impression is especially strong with Amer
lean boys and athletes who have tried their hands at
both games.
Yale, Harvard and Princeton had their football much
to themselves BY and b. Pennsylvania took it up
and then came some of the smaller Eastern colleges.
whose students rather fancied the sport, but Ameri
can football did not get beyond the Allegheny Noun
tains In Ohio. Illinois. Indiana, Michigan and
Wisconsin they heard great deal about it. but they
appeared to fancy that it close corporation af-
fair upon which the larger Eastern universities
toyed a copyright