Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-19
NIKE MURPHY HAS A PROTEST
Psnnsy Man Says Good Foot Ball Men
Are Scarce.
HE OBJECTS TO THE LIMITATIONS
Declares that Eiiufnutiou Of Men
from Professional school % Cot
l~ue wouId Cripple Pros
pects % Eteven.


PHILADELPHIA. Pa March is
There has been lot OF talk Of limitng
the foot BAN team 70 the college and cut
ting ont the professional schools a. they
do at Harvard writes Mike Murray in
-Old Penn" Before we make such
radical change as this lt would be well FOR
us 10 study the situation carefully. and see
just what viii be The effect Every year
since have been here il has grown
harder to set out enough Of material TO
prepare for our regular games Last sea-
son We had just enough men % make up
a team Tor the first game and hau OK tnCm
had not worked with the team st all. they
he'd not signals. and. of course could not
play together. with the result that we lost
the game
The season vas half over before we
could get out a scrub team thai coud play
the varsity a half decent game ano nearly
the entire season we had TO depend on the
freshmen team when we wanted a hard
practice AT no time during the season
did the students back up tine 1919 team a.
they ought. why this should be so Is be-
yond me. We could not get out 100 men 70
mass meeting and after one Of these
meetings we never got single new can
dldate out for the eleven. Il was not this
way fifteen years ago, when this uni
versity was fighting its way to the top.
Yet now that we have got there. st seems
that some Of the students are willing TO
let the other fellow get the hard knocks.
while they sit around the frat houses and
smoke cigarettes.
Few Are Enthuaiastic.
we have to depend entirely on a very
small lot Of enthusiastic men, who come
out every day and do their best II / see
a big, husky chap around the university
and ask him TO come out and work with
/ as he always gives me the same old story
his parents VIII not let him play foot
bali. Here is where we are handicapped:
too many OF our men live at horne. with
the result that when they show up with a
black eye or a lame leg and their mothers
find out they have been playing this awful
game. there is trouble at home. This is
30 more among the middle class OF students
than those who are well to do.
From just this one cause We lose at
least one-han Of cur number Last wear
there was not a single graduate OF any OF
the Philadelphia high schools on the squad
except one; the entire team was made uu
poi men from preparatory schools. that
tells the story. These high school boys
are seldom rugged enough to be OF any
use, and when they are their folks viii
not let them play for feai they viii get
hurt That is why with sOOO men we had
trouble getting out thlrty-nve on any ons
day. We have always been short OF ma.
teriaL Our teams DO not compare IN size
with the elsvens through signals iust be.
fore the game started. that were bigger
than ours; then Were would we be II ",
I n nm ocf
have to go up against that splendid 10
OF men. 1t would be a Joke.
Different with Harvard.
Let us look a. II frLm another side
Harvard gives up her Medical and Law
schools. which she can well afford to do
but In giving up these schools she does no
begin to make the sacrifice we would hav,
70 make. Our schools are right her,
among US; they are a vital part OF our
selves: while hers in Boston, miles ava,
from the university itself; they could no
use these men II they would because the,
are too far away from the field to kssi
up their work People seem to have tn
idea that professional men who play o.
the foot ball teams here do very little wor
IN the school; this il the greatest mistak
Of all We will take the medical school
Every one who knows any thing about
knows these men do as much work q
one year as an academic man IN two. Wei
the man who stands at the head OF IN
: senior class today was the best halfbac
in America a few years ago; anothe
: who was an all-American end is consid
Z cred the best man In his class, and so
? Is ali through ths schools These profsi
b sional men are a credit 10 us-part Of Ou
systenl-and we should not give them VI
( Foot ball makes chem better men.
They are today and always have bee
y among the very best men Of the universlt!
= II would be foolish to give them up an
n wrong. because they are just as much er
o Titled to represent the univeIs ity as an
Z we have as long as we cali ourselves
Il university. Let US use every man from q
the schools who lives up 10 the scholal
ship requirements. We could make the COZ
a cession that we would not use any ma
n who had ever been at airy other colleg
I. This OF itself win leave US in a very be
10 way; II viii take many good men fro
j. the teams that we now need badly, but y
" can agree 10 this and Htin be able to col
m slider ourselves tig university, which y
cannot do II We limit ourselves 20 the ca
iege. We should go slow IN making such
D. change as this. because we would pr0bab
81 lbe beaten not only by Michigan ana Corne
n but by state and Lafayette. AS for wi
A. ming from Yale. Harvard, OF Prineeto
"a n would be still more difficult They wou
4, beat US 50 easily that Our alumni all ov
A. America would be ashamed OF the o
school we must stay In the front RAJ
or quit: we cannot afford to be made ri'
d culous.