Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-08-19
|SNAPPY WEATHER PUTS THE
FOOTBALL FANS ON EDGE
Just a touch of that snappy, brl

just a touch or tndt snappy, DTf
weather. such as has been enjoye
the past few days, is all that VI
needed to send that incomparab
feeling of football ecstasy a-quiyeri1O
down the spine of many a sturdy,
full-blooded. lusty lunged youngster.
for it is the harbinger of that time
when the referees shrill. and yet
joyous toned, whistle viii find those
| determined football warriors lined
up in battle array on the ehalk-1ined
/ gridiron; when the inflated pigsktu
will be booted on its flying course;
when the moleskin garbed players
viii go scampering down the field Oh
their tackling, plunging, goal-bound
! journey to victory-and this year n
going to be the time when Perth
Amboy more than ever before, will
get its rightful share of the grand
old American game.
Accidents? Of course There may
/ be a few, for football, like practf-
caily every other branch OF sport.
/ is a game of physical chance. Fol
several years back the gang has been
undergoing revision-revision thai
has taken away all semblance of bTu.
tality, but which has still left traces
of that exhilerating and manly Sport
/ that has endeared the very name
football to the hearts of th0us-
ands.
True it is that there is an occa
sional fatality in football, so, TOO and
not in far less frequent mum bers, dt
they occur in base ball. in basketball
in racing and in other branches oh
Isport. Prejudice mas mad6
\ upon the great game, and the m0notss
onous hue and cry about brutality
! has been responsible for placing I
ban on the sport in a number of high
schools and preparatory schook
| throughout the country. An aces.
dent in football is usually magnified
and exploited far and near as an az
! ample of the horrors of the game
and Aunt Miranda or Sister SuBis
proceeds to cut out the newspaper Ac-
count and paste 1t in her scrap book
along with clippings about war.
riots and murder. The same acci-
dent, occurring as the result of auto
mobiling or anything else. would bs
| passed over as commonplace.
Essentially a sport for the red
biooded, wide awake American youth
football holds NO place in the ath-
1etie catalogue as recreation fol
the 'milksop,'' or for the wrist-watch
Reggie. who would rather sit by ths
fireside reading Elinor Giynn OF
spend his time in feeding bon-bons to
the girlies But that's all another
story. The main point to bring out
now is this-footbal is going ta
have its inning in and around Perth
,Amboy this year. The high schools
lof Metuehen, Woodbridge, New
Brunswick, South Amboy, Perth AM
boy and other nearby places are go
ing to be represented on the grid
iron The Dexters, one-time state
; champions, may be re-organized. The
Metuchen Field Club is going to put
: out an eleven, the South Amboy
Scholastics will be booting about
the pigskin, and then there VIII be
hundred-and-one junior teams ont
fitted in varied assortments of nose
guards, moleskins, jerseys, shin pads
and everything else that goes with
the game.
"Boldie' Alex has practically ar
ranged his high school schedule and
the team is to be coached by Rufie'
, Allen and "Chiek" Henry into what
should be one of the best elevens
: that ever represented the P. A. ii.
s.; Louis "Pox" Booze is in the
west, and the former Dexters ara
scattered, but it seems likely that a
crack senior eleven will be rounded
lup here with Tom" Hanson ready
to lend his services; McMiehaels, for-
mer Rutgers guard, is wiling to as
sist in shaping up the Scholasties in
| the city across the river, and the
Metuchen boys are already mapping
out plans for a hard gridiren cam
paign. The Metuchen F. c. eleven
will probably be comprised of Ed
Breen, Massopust, Bill" Brssns
Clarkson, Lamparter, Holden Spear
, ED" Spear, Smith, Thompson r OBJ
inson, Lundy, Rule, and Bender.
I Saturday and holiday games will b.
I staged.