Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-30
A WESTERN VIEW OF FOOTBALL
Is Not ParIor Game as Female
Semnaries Have Not Adopted 1t.

Football is an effort on the part of
IL shin guards to occupy the same
place at the same time. 1t is elassed
as q game, but looks more like a
clinic. It IS ealled football because
the bah is about a foot long.
1t takes - men To play football and
somewhere near twice that number to
keep them in repair. An automobile
is durability itself beside u football
player. In our large colleges, the foot
ball garage is constantly filled during
the fall with football players who
have had to go into the back shop for
thorough overhauiing. The chief
objects used in the game beside the
players, are a referees whistle. two
goal posts, a Red Cross wagon, a bar
rel of splints, a loud yirulent yell. a
carload of flags and few thousand
rooters with brass-lined Threats. a
rooter is a baseball fan with cold
weather earbureter He can stand for
hours in the snow and yell without
disturbing anyone outside his own
congressional district.
The football is used in the game to
locate the disturbance. Wherever the
bali is, there is no more peace than
there is in a love-feast with an in
surgent in it The object of the game
is to take the ball down the field to
the goal over, under and through the
opposition without aid OF axes, saws,
carving knives, battering rams or
dynamite. Those who have seen a
good football team in action will real
ize how little these things are needed
anyway.
Football is not a peaceable game,
because of the great objection of the
team which hasn't the ball to its
progress down the field. a football
player is the greatest standpatter in
the world Ii things can't go his way
he doesn't want them to 90 at all
/ Some football players are 50 un-
serupulous as to fall down before the
advancing runner and twist his ankle
by getting it tangled up in their ribs.
Frequently, also the man with the bail
will snag himself severely on broken
bore, while going through an opponent,
or will dent his head OH an adyersary's
teeth, or will slip on a slippery face
and twist his knee until he yells with
pain. Because of these facts, football
IS not considered a parlor game and is
making little Roadway in the female
seminaries.
Football is an earnest game and re-
quires various talents. A football
player should weigh $50 pounds and
should have eopper-fastened teeth.
reinforced concrete shins, a 1.-the. linn
Der backbone and angle iron knees.
tie should also have duplicate nose
If possible The player should be SO
hard that he can dent locomotive and
yet So flexible that he can emerge
from beneath II men, reach out his
arm q feet and plant the ball between
the goal posts He should also be able
TO grab 13-ineh she'll around the
waist and hold it until help arrives. If
possible, a football player should re-
Train from marriage,
Football is played mostly by col
legians. because by the time a man is
out OF college he has sense enough not
10 play it, An old player can be told
b. the quiet way in which he doesn't
dodge street cars. automobiles. hood
Iu1ns and lightning. If they hit him it
is their own fault, and he does not hold
himself responsible for the conse-
quences. Kansas city star.