Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-15
PAINLESS GAMES ARE SCARCE.
War Correspondent Tells of Mashed Nose and Nearly Loose Ear-Har- yard, Carlisle, Army, Brown and Vermont All Poor in conduct-Cor- nell Has Real Naughty Boy,

yard, Carlisle, Army, Brown and
 Vermont All Poor in conduct-Cor-
 nell Has Real Naughty Boy.
 The greatly decreased list of injur
 ed in the football games this fall has been a source of considerable sadsfac- tion to experts and it is admitted that the rules are now all right, as far as physical damage through rules alone are concerned Still the doings last Saturday indicate that the football players need amendments of their own. The rules are O. K, but one will have to lay 1t up to the warriors for such a sad story as was echoed from many field Saturday. Not a day this season or last or the one before that brought such a wholesale amount of alleged unfair playing, if reports were correctly given. Penalties for unfair tactics, most of the latter being unin- tentioEal, of course, were many, and while doctors were not given such a heavy business there were numerous smacks, wallops, kicks and other wig orous expressions of disgust, temper or sheer carelessness.
 One of the most interesting accounts of Saturdays barbarity tells of tho Syracuse Lafayette game, and the indignant war correspondent at Laf- ayette wired the home office: "The playing of Syracuse was rough Two Lafayette men had to be carried off the field. In one of these instances Captain PrCibSt, who had come in for a good deal of criticism for roughness, was disqualified for giving the knee to the Lafayette man. One Syracuse man was also carried off the field" X game like that could never be played 1 in china shop. From Easton, Pn., came the following Lafayette word: Furry and Brown received the most | severe penalties. Brown has badly mashed nose and Furry had his ear torn nearly off, beside severe bruises | on the head and body. The roughneSs | of the game on Saturday is blamed entirely in the officials. The tactics ar l times were absolutely brutal and the 1 officials made no attempt to stop it un- | til the stands began to make demon- 1 strations of wrath"
 In the Harvard Vanderbilt game l there was an absence of ladylike be- [ havior and the allegation accuses liar yard of using hands too frely. In fact, 1 Hunter Mcclure was so obnoxious as ! to be heaved out of the game and his team penalized half the distance to the goal line. In the Harvard-Brown game Hitchcock of the Crimson was just rough enough in going after Crowth.sr ! to get himself wiped out of the game and his team penaliZed a vast expanse of territory In the Princeton Dart
 mouth game Dartmouth claims Bleu-
 thenthals tactics in getting gay with 1 the ball when on defensive were very | shabby. Bluethenthal is accused by some of trying to repeat the shady stuff in the Princeton Harvard game. But we are discussing the most recent of evil doings. Down in New Hay 4n l Saturday Tenny of Brown made a | vicious play in tackling Lefty Flynn
 and a more brittle chap than the Yale
 youth would have been broken some where Temper was on wings sure ly. After the Holy Cross Vermont : game in Worcester some of the Holy Cross boys looked as though some one | had been playing a strange tune on their faces. We have it that the In dlans and West Pointers were not very tame either Powell of Carlisle swss chased out of the game for roughness, and so was Captain Devore of the army. Devore's atrocity was the bouncing on a man who was down. Wild feelings did not always resort to physical violence for expression The versatile Williamson of Cornell eeN oration as made the ears of the pdous jingle. the officials ruling him out for
 'unseemly language" This may not
 be a new one. but 1t is not very com mon In the Johns Hopkins Western
 Maryland game both sides were penal ized for "unnecesstry roughness y Sat
 urday surely was a big day for the
 rough necks" all over the country. In
 the face of these alleged rough tactics
 one may well weigh seriously the ques
 tion if the old mass play was brutal because of it's rules or because the players made it look so strenuous. Of
 course the sinners Saturday were not
 playing up to the rules, but against them, and just why they mixed things
 up so cannot be left to football to ex- plain. The fact Is that many of the athletes are not playing with the prop
 CT amount of sportsmanship, the great i eagerness to win being responsible Penalties have been large all season for careles and unintential violations
 of rules, and many and many a penal
 ty has been saved because the officials
 were not alert enough. Were baseball
 umpires to let mistakes happen so oft
 en as football officials do there would
 be more men on crutches in this coun-
 try,