Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-29
SAYS ROUGH PLAY
ENDANGERS GAME
Western Coach Declares Foul
Tactics Will Put Ban
on Football.
GOSSIP OF THE GAME
GOSSIP OF THE GAME

According TO no less en- authority
than George HUFF, head coach OF the
University OF Illinois eleven, the ex-
istence OF football is seriously
threatened by the tendency to re-
vert to the rough tactics of former
years. Huff says that neck wiring
ing this year Is becoming g. COM
mon practise, and that the old-time
"piling up" is done with a joyous
abandon, when in most cases 1t Is
wholly unnecessary. The western
coach puts the blame for these
offenses on INSCRIPTIONS coaches
and lax officials, and adds further
that many of the prominent gridiron
solons tell their men to go in and
get" their opponents, meaning that
bone breaking and smuggling Is what
is expected. To have the men on
the line threaten and curse their
opponents to provoke punishable re-
taliation. says Huff, Is also done with
deplorable frequency
The Holy Cross team Is in pretty
coed condition again after its maui
ing by Harvard, and expects to be as
fit for Princeton next Saturday as 1t
was for Yale. Whether Princeton
will find the Massachusetts boys as
rough as Harvard and Yale did re-
mains to be seen.
Quarterback Llewellyn's run for a
touchdown against Princeton is said
to have been on the spur of the mo-
ment. Whitney was to have carried
the ball on a crossbuck, but Dunbar,
the centre, who showed back on Lew
ellyn. who wasn't able to pass the
ball and did the only thing he could
do, carried 1t himself
Knowles, OF Yale, is developing
into one of the best punters of the
year. e7
Captain Storer. of Harvard, has by
yearly degrees worked himself out to
the extremity of the line. He was a
centre year before last, paused a
season at tackle and now holds forth
at end.
The Amherst football squad took a
decided brace yesterday. The var
sity lined up against the strong fresh
men eleven and scored at leisure,
crossing the goal line eight times.
With every man on the squad in his
football clothes and ready to play
yesterday afternoon, DIR. Sharpe and
his assistants began rounding the
Cornell men into condition for the
Harvard game on Saturday. Phiilippi
was at left half on tie third team
because of a minor injury to his neck.
Gilbert, who may be used as
o'Hearn's substitute at end, also was
in this squad.
m.
ported for practise yesterday, with
the exception of Hogsett, Loudon and
Snow. Captain Hogsett is being
given a much needed rest Loudon,
whose injury Is only slight one, also
rested.
The resumption of work in the Army
football camp yesterday was marked
by q hard scrirnmage. All the regu-
lars were in the game except Weyand
and Captain Hoge. The formers
place AZ tackle went to Packard for
awhile. and later the coaches tried
Larkin in the position. Merrillat was
at Hoge's place on right end.
The Naval Academy backfield has
an unusually husky look. Blodgett,
the big fellow from the High School
of Commerce, New York, is at left
halfback In place of Leonard. He
weighs nearly 200 pounds. while Nc
Reavey, at right half, and Harrison,
at fullback. are 1S5-pound men,
Coach Glenn Warner began yester-
day at Indian football practise to
work out the remainder of the new
formations he will use this year, only
two of which he was able to play
against Pennsylvania on Saturday on
account of the muddy field. The aft
ernoon's drill terminated with forty
minute scrimmage between varsity
and scrubs, lasting until dusk.