The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-03
COLUMBIA SWEARS
FOOTBALL SUPPORT
Over 1000 Subscribe 50 Each
and Three Hundred Sign TO
Try to Make Team.
BUTLER AT MASS MEETING

over a thousand OF the fifteen hundred
Columbia urdergradudtes, VINO packed
University Hall at noon yesterday 10
learn the "surprisr" advertised by their
energetic student board, signed cards IN
dcating that they will subscribe w toward
tho initial expense Of organizing var
sity football team IN 1915. Three hundred
pledged themselves as football candidates,
and OF this number ninety-ii weighed
over 1865 pounds. President Butler care
fully avoided any alus.on to football IN
his three minute address but warmly
praised the student board for its work
In trying to revive undergraduate enthusl-
Asm and 50 indirectly approved OF the
peaceful. but spirited. attempt OF the I'M
dcrgu,duates to show the faculty that
tho restoration OF the gridiron Eaine AT
Columbia must come.
Walter Dwycr. chairman OF the student
board was the only speaker who said
anything definite about the restoration
OF football There WAS an under current
which indicated that nothing need be s'Id
but that a subducd. yet forcctul. appeal
by the undcrgrdduate body, provided IT
will last, is all that is necessary. pwNer
taid that both President Butler, whose
ultmatum nine years ago bauiShcd the
game from the Columbia campus a. a
varsity sport. and Secretary fackeu-
thai had told him that the question would
receive careful consideration once the fac
ulty was assured that the HUNGER for the
game was real and not affected.
Arthur Howe. the former Yale all Amer
tcan quarterback who. with George La
mede. formerly OF Missouri. and Charley
Ham of the 1912 Harvard varsity, re-
celved cup from the UNDERGRADUATE body
In appreciation of his services as vol
unteer coach OF the class team this fall
said that football was as essential TO a
IL
Howe, who is student In the Union
Theological Seminary. was greeted with q
brand Of cheering that showed IN no un-
certain way to just what extent Columbia
was grateful to him and his kind II was
the brand OF coaches common ten years
ago that brought the game into disfavur
That type has passed into history. "a wei
a. the old Objectionable features OF tn,
game.
No end OF competent coaches have vol.
unteercd to coach Columbia in the event
that il has varsity team next year
Men Of the type of Ham Fish. character
ized by Walter Camp as the greatest
tackle the game has ever seen; Hunting
ton. the all American quarterback Will,
At Colgate last year. Howe. Ham anc
Iamede have impressed the faculty nearly
as much as the serious enthusiasm Of Tho
Undergraduates. Flsh's father and grand
father are Columbia alumni and II /.
hardly possible that Harvard would hav,
got him II Columbia had had football
His willingness to help In the coach ms
lent no uncertain aid to the movement
to restore football
President Buffers speech was not or
football. but 1t led tho undergraduates e
believe that If football was the means t,
the spirit that has been In eyidenc" al
the Columbia campus for the last mont
1t was worthy of praise. The fire. h
ui,..f hat Ial
was destructive. Tho tirc and enthusiasm
OF you here are constructive and praise
worthy"
G. +. Mccarthy the stroke Of Columbia.
varsity crew that won a. poughkeepsie for
the first time in nineteen years. said tina
the restoration of football would prove .
benefit to all sports. lis hope that IN,
fight would be "A short ono met with suc'
popular appeal that dignity was lost fo'
moment and enthusiasm ran high
Dryer said the best arguments for th'
restoration of the game were known :,
all. The outburst a few weeks ago WA
absolutely spontaneous No one. he sal id
was driven ou;. The practice was well +.
tended and the crowd was beyond eX
pectations The game was IDEAL from th'
standpoint OF higher sfsct!on-nobod!
was hurt and nobody lost II is his opn
ion that all The reasons brought for'l
when football was abolished no longer holt
the evils Of the game are now extinct
Every captain of an athletic team signc'
card 10 report as a candidate. TIL
returns showed that every man entitled (
wear the college insignia also signed On
amusing incident AZ the mass meeting re
suited at the close OF the monster affai
when q youth who processes anarchist
tendencies was carried away so by tn
sincere desire of the students tha. he b.
came converted TO the cause and tried (;
argue Indifferent students into slgnin
to supper the future team financially.
The football fund was over $4,000 il
1905. hut when 1910 saw the game IA -
ther away from the Columbia campus tina
ever the money was turned over to tn
university. The student board figured tina
a supreme test would be 10 see how niue
money could he raised without warnin
and by this method test the depth OF "a
gridiron enthusiasm. The result shove
one more cloud removed. The card
which so many Undergraduates signr
read
''If am in college In 1856 will be
cand date for the varsity football team
~ will subscribe 81 before October I.
1915, toward the initial expense Of organ
izng and maintaining varsity footba