El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-16
Pigskin Contests NotO Hold
Interest In College Sports
Universities Now Have Modern Stands, Seating 5OOOO
to Accommodate Spectators Indians and Deaf and
Dumb Students Put up Great Exhibition on the
Football Field-Alumni Make Good Coaches
By Frederic J. HaskinO

season of 1905 when an unusually
heavy toll of mishaps aroused the pub
lie to such a pitch that drastic changes
were demanded. So strong was the
public clamOr that, in many respects,
the game was revolUtionized. Each
successive meeting of the national
committee saw further changes until
at present the rules are in such form
. that they have brought about a game
that is generally satisfactory At is
deliberations last winter the committee
made but few minor changes in the
code.
Throngs Attend Big Games.
While baseball is rightfully cOnsid-
ever staged on the diamond drew such
thrOngs as annually assemble at the
football classics of the east. What is
said to be the greatest crowd that
ever saw a football game in this coun-
try was at the Harvard-Dartmout
game at Cambridge last fall when a.
600 paid TO see the p men IN action
The crowds at the other socalled
championship games" at Cambridge,
New Haven and Princeton, mark well
up toward the 10000 mark each
autumn, while an indication that the
interest in the game is not restricted
the fact that on last Thanksgiving day
with snow on the ground more than
100000 persons saw the interschOlastic
games in Boston alone.
Now Have Enormous Plants.
In order to care for the constantly
have been forced to build enormous
plants. Starting with Franklin field,
the University of Pennsylvania, giant
stands have been built such as the
stadium at Harvard and Syracuse,
While Yale now has in the course OF
construction a concrete bowl that viii
accommodate nearly so. 600. The Univer-
S1ty of Chicago recently dedicated
modern field that will stand as a last
ing monument to football and AlOnZo
Stage, who has been in charge of the
game since the enlargement of the
Chicago institution.
That even the mammoth stands that
have already been built will not meet
controversy of West Point and An
napolis over the site for their game
From comparatively small game this
annual meeting has DEVELOPED in i'm
pOrtance until it has OutgrOwn Frank
I'm Field and this fall will be PLAYED
at the Polo grounds, the home of the
New York National league ball club.
It required the efforts of army and
navy officials at Washington to avert
a breach this year and in going TO New
York the midshipmen made conces-
slons TO the cadets. The Annapolis
people objected to New York because
OF the added distance from their bar
racks and II. is pretty generally under
H7NoSA mat " ALE4A the question OF the
game is taken up next year, navy will
insist upon it being played at Wash
ingtOn.
Two Novel EIeVenS.
Columbia is one of the few univeI-
stiles IN the country that does not
football team. Two of the
most novel teams in the country are
the ones representing the Carlisle In
dian school and Gallaudet college. in
the District of Columbia The former
IS composed exclusively of indians and
cessful that it has beer. readily .coDied
by other teams. One of the longest
runs on recOrd-105 yards-was made
by Charles Dillon of the indians. who
surrounded by his teammates following
a kick off, slipped the ball under his
jersey and ran for a touchdown before