The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-08
ONE FOOTBALL
GAME WORLD OVER
Alex Knox Of New South Wales
has Scheme For New Uni.
form 6ridIron Coda
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eSVSOsA AAg0E00kD Su0 WOxI0
over and to create IN on.
tirely now game combining
elements Of the American intercol.
lsetate contests ana Rugby 10 proposed
~ Alex Knox. former executive chair.
man Of the New South Wales Rugby
Football league.
He desires the building Of q new
game which viii be sort Of Esperan.
TO- football played by American, Eng
lish. Canadian. South African, Austria
hsn. French ana possibly German
teams.
Mr.. Knox has seen several games Of
football ~ played by American COLI
leges ana has been quoted with opin-
ions Of the game in various cities. Nat.
uEally he believes Rugby 10 the better
game; but. unlike some other visitors,
he has no desire to hurl an alien form
Of athletics bodily into American in
stitutions.
Il wish to organize football 20 that
It may become an international sport
like the Olympic games and Marathon
running" says Mr.. Knox.
II have no idea Of attempting to de-
wise q new same Of football myself,
but have plan TO interest the gov
etning bodies Of football playing peo.
pies in an international game. AS for
crtticising American football, I am in
no position to do so. I do not like the
game as played here as well as do
hut SaAA A.
intensely. for the big contests draw
thousands Of spectators. Rugby at
tracts in a similar way wherever 1t is
played.
Important men are enthusiastic over
football as a game. The German em-
peror has advised the young men of
the nation to take up the sport The
elen1e: Is Of football are beneficial and
inter ,sting. II game could be devised
which every country might play under
apniversal code no athletic field could
hold ths crowds which would gather
Tor an international championship
match. The game shoulc have the
bsst elements Of all the present varia-
tfons. A movement to form such q
g1me desire to start"
Mr.. Knox has sent l>tter to the in
teecollegiate rules committee in this
oonntry and a similar letter to the Rug
BY Football associations Of England,
Canada. Australia, South Africa.
France and California asking the bod
les II they are willing to attempt the
formation Of q new game and are WILL
ing to send delegate to an interna-
ttonal convention for the purpose. II
fayo BILE replies are received to such
q Communication and the main foot
bail interests Of the various countries
ar willing to consider the plan Mr..
Knox is ready to take the first steps in
securing corresponding secretaries from
the organizations and selecting q place
for an international conference.
The Australian. who has been iden-
tined with Rugby for many years. takes
Q more favorable view Of the American
game t,.an does Professor Edwin Lin
tn Of Washington and Jefferson coll
lege, who has Joined the ranks Of those
who desire the adoption Of Rugby and
the complete assassination OF the
American game. He has been involved
In the faculty control Of athletics in
Washington and" Jefferson for some
time and has had an influence on inter-
collegiate athletics among the rivals Of
his college.
His recent attack on football reads
in part as follows: :.
why this insistencs for a radical
change in the rules year after year?
No such demand is or ever has been
made for any other game which Is used
In intercollegiate athletics. Bluntly,
my answer 10 that It Is because the
game as 1t has developed in this coun-
try has 10 many undesirable charac-
teristics that the only reform which 10
possible Is ito ANAL and irresurrectable
burial In the scrap heap Of the worlds
fcilies."