Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-18
Football, Under Fire for Eight
Years, Finally Proves Itself
Real Leader of College Sports

old game are in evidence, because
1T is no longer so exhausting to par
Elephants that they can not study
after practice. and because the
whole uproar has resulted i'm a bet
ter underst landing between profess
sors and students, with more CO.
operation, a wider viewpoint for
both and a more sane and health
full life and living for both.
And, finally, the players like it
because there is more science and
skill in the game than ever: be-
cause the little man has a bettef
relative chance than formerly, and
because the work is not so grind
ingly uncomfortable as 1t used to be
Evidences of the Reaction.
But what | really started out to
do was to call attention to the clear
and undentable evidences that foot
ball had come back" So. without
more ado, let me recall to your
minds that eight years ago every
last college and athletic club on the
Pacific slope followed the lead Of
Leland Stanford and the University
OF California, aud abolished Ameri
can Rugby altogether. substituting
therefor the English soccer. And
thus has II been out there for the
past eight years. But Just the
other day we read that all the col
leges but the two named have de-
cided TO give up soccer and go back
to American Rugby again. For this
purpose they have formed an inter
collegiate league, which includes all
the prominent colleges of the coast
except California and Stanford. But
these two can not by themselves
keep soccer alive out there. and il
is easy to guess what they will be
holding mass meetings for in the
course OF couple of years. at most.
EVerybody's Doing It.
We also read the other day that
the Canadian colleges had decided
to organize an intercollegiate
league modelled after the leagues
OF the States, and that their main
object was to introduce our col
legs football into their own halls
In arriving at this determination
they were greatly aided by what
they saw OF the game as played by
the Carlisle Indian team on the oc-
casion OF their visit this fall to To-
ronto, where they played the uni
NerSity of that city match game.
one-half under the Canadian rugby
rules and the other half under orr
rules. The contrast and points Of
superiority in our game amazed the
Canadians.
Then. again, Union college. which
cut out the old game entirely eiuht
years ago, has recently come back
INTO the fold and is again PLAYING
American football. Columbia is
again battling with the question
with bright prospects OF having It
restored.
And down IN Cuba they have had
at least two good teams for the
past three years-the University OF
Havana and the Havana Athletic
club teams. These teams defeat
ed Tulane the first year they we're
organized. Last year they were
barely defeated by Mississippi. and
this year, I understand, the Uni
versity Of Alabama is going down
the country is nearly double that
TO Havana during the holidays TO
Try conclusions with them.
Also it is fact that the num-
Der of organized football teams in
the country is nearly double what
it was eight years ago; ana along
with this comes the statement that
the output and sale of football
goods and paraphernaHa by sport
ing goods manufacturers is quite
double what IL was in 1905