The evening world., 1913-01-20
FOOTBALL AGAIN
At COLUMBIA IS
SPORTS LATEST
President Butler Is Won Over
to Game After Eight
Years.
FOOTBALL 10 to b revived at
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C-O-L-U-M-B.I-A-ra ray and
. . couple Of hundred RAisi
Yep. the Blue and White n goinS
TO tear things up on the sridiron once
more. either next season or In 1914.
This wonderful change has been 40
complished By convincing DR.. Nicho-
Las Murray Butler that football can
again be played safely and success
fully at Columbia under the now
rules. The great record made BY last
season football playing was . big fac
tor In causing Dr. Butler to change
his stand regarding Columbia's play.
.. ing the game.
The absence Of q single fatality on me
Gridiron last year convinced DR.. Butler
that ths roughness and brutality in foot
ball. which caused its death 1t Column
bia, had been eliminated and that the
strenuous sport played under the modi-
ned rules wasn't 90 dangerous after all
80. after an absence Of eight years. Il
IL extremely likely that the Blue and
White will be represented on the grid.
iron next season. n Q schedule can be
framed up In time. or In 1914. at tho
latest. Now. ist the cheering squads gst
busy.
According 70 reports that leaked out
to-day. DIR. Butler requested opinions
from former stars and members OF the
alumni on the advisabiiity Of GivinE
back football TO the college. Tho opin-
ions have been drifting In during the
In A. h.
learned. every ono was unanimous In
declaring that the Sport could be re-
stored safely end successfully a. Column
bia. II 10 believed that Dr. Butler Wa
10 impressed with the recommended tons
given him BY prominent members Of the
alumni that he made up his mind to
lift tho ban against football. and n
present plans don't miscarry viii DO 20
ofic!ally In the next few dAyA
President Builder didn't want for ad-
vice givers. Out on his ramon In New
Mexico Bill Morley. ono OF the greatest
hacks In the games history. got wind Of
what was on foot and travelled all the
way b New York to tell Columbia's
President that the xridtron Fame would
he . great thing for his college. Morley
had pienty Of company too. Harold
woeis. Tom Christie. Harry A. Fisher.
graduate manager Of Athletics: 0ustavs
7. Kirby. trustee Of Columbia. Francis
g. Banev. Tom Thorp. Dave Smythe and
Charles Mapes also volunteered infor-
nation to the effect that football would
greatly stimulate athletic interest at
Columbia.
with permission given Il will not take
the colleges athletic authorities long to
round up competent coaching stan
and seleot Q strong eleven, for there's
unlimited material among the $500 boys
registered Al tho college on tho heights
In all likelihood II WON'T be long before
the rah. rah OF Columbia 10 heard on
South Field.
II was way back in 1905 that the death \.
knell was sounded At Columbia on foot.
oall The eaIne played In those Days
was the old crushing. ripping. mass FOR.
nations, The sport was much more
brutal and rougher than the style OF
game played nowadays. At that time II
was . common occurrence to have five
or six deaths result from q seasons
playing. A movement to abolish the
snort was started In many quarters
In 1s0 Columbia began the season with
bright prospects. Tom Thorp. tho vet.
eran guard, was elected captain. III
had . line wonderfully strong and q
backf,eid fast and pows rful. Victories
came easy at the start Tho team, how
a power at guard. had trouble with thu
faculty over his scholarship standini
and resigned HE captaincy CT the middle
Of the year.
Reverses came thick and fast then
Out OF respect to Thorp no captain wal
elected and the eleven became democrat
ixed. Teams came down to South F!.l,
and literally wiped up tho gridiron with
tho once strong Blue and White team,
h. INN uyhA nyVNfr
ously defeated Coluanoua, Is to o. A
this tims . player died Of injuries ~
csfvsd At tho Unlon-Nsw York Untver
sly game and Dean McCracken led
movement to abolish football - q col
leSe sport He was Joined BY President
Eliot Of Harvard and Butler OF .Coium
; bia. President Eliot rsscinded his orde
TO stop football At Harvard and pea'
MoCracken ultimately changed ms min
about the abolition OF the strsnuou
game At N. Y. y. President Butler re-
mained steadfaSt in his Discriminate
to stop football. ana At the close Of tn
J 1906 season he issued an edict foroidal n
: Columbia team playing In q footba
contest with any other COLLEGE,
A storm OF protest crested tho Pres
dents order. The students held mas
meetings every night against tho stog
page OF their favortte sport. The
I waters OF the Hudson for all the good
: did. Unable to play football. tho intel
. est OF the boys began TO wane In oths
sports. Soon Columbia was forced int
. oblivion as far as being a power In CO.
lcgs athletics.
, II II comes to pass that the Blue an
q White will again battle on the grtdlro
Y q schedule will be hurriedly framed "a
I this season. or II that 10 impossible. on
for 1914, 1t In the plan now to arans
games with possibly Wesleyan, Uniol
Rutgers. Trinity and ~. Y. y. The on
big game will be with either Penn {
Cornell. II IL proposed TO give Columb'
tryouts with these colleges during III
, hrst season for experimental purpose
The schedule. OF course, would /
strengthened as the teams progre'
}. merited II.
4 capable coaching stan could be o,
. ganized from former Columbia star
u There'd be Weeks. Thorp. Morley an
u smythe to pick from right at the star
. Ten thousand dollars remained In III
q treasury when football was killed an
d that sum still IL available for instar
q use II team II formed.
b And can you imagine what would hl'