Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-10
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the foot he'll ssassa have no, ye die,
out. Fac. s.. tie oshe. g. evsn e. thu
late cate as io-e. g.: ~. .9-1.- thar
the original noise. II Is the season oI
squabbles, arguments aa5 beasts that !.
upon us.
Tho chamriorship Of the east e. In dis
pute: the oheupio- ship % tire vest &,
undecided; the charnYio~sNlo e. the south
IL being determined b. debate ire cham
pionship of TIRE copnlry In cor ze!cted
And the season % .1'i - cye.
Both tho Navy u7t rrEes.sr have
sound claims &C. tho rrorem-er OF the
country. but s'ncs those two teams fought
% tic IN ths cary seas-a. ra.,S-r can
claim superiority oyer tss ctsss
There rhoyid be ssr,s way - deter
mining the chn~71'oa. - cor!d be done
there ~ no couSt about ttat : cen
trail body could Re created. mrcs up Of
representatives o. tro mest prominent
universities n to country. .Esse ex-
perts could gather together atocl cecem-
Der / % cccA gear, eonsico. the claims
OF each q the tears ar3 ~ vots come
to a co=clg1ion End designate the cham
picn q the year giving TO ~ winner
some cup or banner, for pcsssss,od dur
Ing the year, emblomat,c % the cham
pionshir. The nerne OF tie triumphant
institutions could be engraved upon the
cup or embroidered upon tSs banner,
whichever II might be. There would be
plenty OF foSt bal enthusiasts willing
TO donate such a trophy o. contribute to
IT,
As 10 the championship board. e could
be composed In part. at least Of the
members Of the present rules corsmlttee.
The institutions represented Bholld In
clude yale. Harvard. Princeton Dart
mouth. Cornell. PennsylvaDia, Army.
Navy. Chicago, Michigan and three or
four others. The membership should be
an Cdd number In event that there were
several rightful claimants 10 the title the
question could be decided BY an elimina-
ton vote The three leaders on tbs first
ballot would be candidates on the second.
Then II would narrow down to two and
the odd number would compel a majority
Of az least Que. In this way there would
be no danger o. the comrnittee not being
able TO select a champion
The chief objection 10 such n plan
would be that some colleges or several Of
them would be dissatisfied and might
even rebel and leave the national con-
ference" or whatever II might be called.
But there Is no reason why this should
occur. The eolleges-every one OF them
abide by the decision Of the rules com
mittee in regard 20 changes in the play
lng code. Why shouldn't they abide by
the decision OF national conference In
reGard 20 the championship?
The six Leading teams IN the east this
year could be designated rs Princeton,
Navy Harvard. Army. Ya.s and Dart
mouth. Each one Of these teams viii
lose several star players BY graduation
next June. including Of course their cap
talns who are almost always members
OF the senior class.
Captain Dalton OF the Navy Is probably
the greatesti captain OF the year. lie
was more than half OF the Navy team.
being it's best ground gamer. It's only
good kicker. and a wonderful ono. too
and one Of It's defensive bulwarks. Dalton
Is the first man who has been the de-
Gliding factor In more than ore Army,
Navy battle. He will 30 down 10 his
tory as one Of the greatest drep.kiea,rI
OF all time.