The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-19
HEROES ARE OUT
Of PRESENT GAME
Football Has Changed in
Other Than the
Rules

New York. Dec. 19-Iieroics are out
OF place i'll the present day football.
There is no more Of the old time
"pluck' which was. really foolhardi-
ness and often resulted In fatal in.
iurics.
When men are injured, nowadays
tncN are taken out of the game. and
no players are encouraged to report
me slightest hurt to coach and the
trainer ut the end that the same may
no promptly attended to in the hope
that h player may be saved from
4 long siege in the hospital. One OF
he hest coaches in the east tells his
PLAYERS before the practice as we'll
AS before the game: When you are
= n'lrt ! want YOU to quit and to come
and tell mo about it. You don't have
To limp and YOU don't have to groan
nor do you have to he so badly hurt
that YOU fall down several times in
the attempt to set back in the line
up"
Modern System
Under tho modern system the men
who arc close to football can see
nothinS that approaches pluck in
playing the game to a finish, when
the player is afflicted with a floating
rib that may punch IL hole in his lung
at n minute. Time was when the
men who played on uncomplaining-
~ when they could hardly stand or see
came in for more than their share
of applause. when the man who rcclc.l
about the field. only ut last to reel
back into tho lineup was applaud
ed from the stands and made as much
ut as til" man who went through tho
gamc without injury and played his
best.
Tho injured man is a useless factor
In II g present day team work and
no first class eleven has any room
for him. The time has gone by when
a man could wear AN aluminium plate
over his ribs or play while suffering
ag"nirs from an liberated tooth as
was the case with "Bucky'' Vail Of
Pennsylvania when the Quakers de-
fea,cd Princeton at Manhattan field
years ago. causing an upset in the
-octball world.
Players are no longer expected to
emulate Norris Ely of Yale and Sew
ell. til" navy quarterback who played
in their big games with fractured ribs.
have bean taken out at once had there
been any Indication in their play that
they were 8" seriously hurt.
Hon Easy
In these days ;hr injured man walks
unconccrnedly tn tho side lines where
he finds coach and trainer waiting for
him and says simply My knee" My
ankle" or My neck" Ills hurt is
dressed at nice and he has II chance to
rest and temperate for amy trainer
worthy tn" name has :: horror of the
university hospital. To" often. when
the man goes to the hospital hr is
immediat ely put 10 bod. is compelled
to so "n Il dict not calculated to MAIN
tain his strength and is kept there
long after the active trainer would
cave had him out on the field again in
Iood shape.
Little by little mon like Mike Muir
;'cy Of PENNSYLVANIA: Johnny MoakleN
of E0rnell: Keenc Fitzpatrick of
Princeton: "Pcoch' Donovan at Ilar-
ward and Mack of Yale have edged
their way INTO the football councils to
the extent that their report on the con-
liti"n OF the players has been accept
r'l as final. There are men on the
days. big or little. who under the old
regime would have been on the field
and in every scrimmagc.
The trainers are masters of the art
If first aid to The injured and they will
pull :: man out of the game, no mat
ter what the score or how great the
apparent need of his presence, and it is
an Intelligent coach VIII oleaves this
matter to the expert who has made
III exhaustive study of tho condition OF
he men and often knows more OF their
Compartments than the coach HIM
self.
Time was when the trainers chief
function was to %bandagc injured men
and send them back into tho game
while the play WAS under way. or to
devise intricate and complicated pro-
tective armOr especially designed to
cover Il weaker spot. Nowadays the
trainer sends wen the whole player
into the game we'll protected by expert
bandaging and both trainer and coach
insist upon properly placed padding
that usually has to pass inspection. In
the '90s a man supervised his own BAN
daging and his w padding. too often
With unfortunate results.
Are Masters
Tho injury to FELTON,, the tall end
and left footed kicker of the Harvard
the big Crimson punter passed muster
with a badly arranged and insufficient
hip pad and sustained an injury that
kept him out of the Princeton game.
II is this matter of protective BAN
daEing that docs not include the heavy
:,rn,or "f five ears ago. that makes
the work of the football trainer far
more difficult than hat of the man
who merely has to look after the base
ball players. Harry Tuthill. for years
with the New York National baseball
gers. is one Of the baseball trainers
who have found football work to their
liking and have mastered the theory
and practice of protective b%andaging.
Last season lie conditioned the West
DIN eleven and achieved results.
The condition of the mon between the
halves Of tho Army-Yale game was a
fair sample of his work. 1t used to
be the theory that the cadet life was