The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-15
FOOTBALL SUPREME
IN TRAINING CAMPS
AIR Is Full Of Pigskins, for Of
ficers Consider Game .
Ideal Sport.
BREEDS. RIGHT QUALITIES
nv GEORGE II. UNDERWOOD

IN their football battle against the eleven
Now on the larger checker board OF war
ne is doing bigger things. as can be
seen from the numerous times he re-
Gently has been mentioned in the cable
dispatches for the part he played in
the fghting along the Vesle and the
A,sne As he led on the football field
so he is in the forefront Of the nghting
over There. There is no better training,
morally, physically and spiritually, for
a soldier than that offered on the foot
bail field,
THE battle of Waterloo" said We'll
lngton, was won on the football fields
Of England" The courage aggressive
ness disregard of injury. ability to
think and act under fire schooled into
the Rriton through his devotion to Rugby
was what made -ss "tllip red line"
hold against the last desperate charge of
Napoleon's veteran soldiery.
Speaking Of service sports Prof.
Joseph Z. Raycroft OF the Commission
for Training Camp Activities says. I'm
the final analysis all physical training
in the army must have a practical mil
itary signiicance."' Football possesses
this significance to an unusual extent.
Down at Camp DIX Sol Metzger has
more than forty football elevens in the
making. Capt. Frank Click. the former
Princeton gridiron hero. has just as
many more at Camp Upton. One will
And It the same whatever cantonments
= he visits. There is not high officer
among our forces who does not realize
the value OF football and the close rela-
t.onship It bears to the military. That
Is why 80 football season is being
rushed ar.yng Uncle Sans war schools
Ancnt the Cadets.
Commenting on what the students will
undergo when Uncle Sam takes hold
Of the collegiate rens a Pittsburg writer
says: They will be in direct charge
81 a Regular Army officer and his staff,
from whom they will take their orders
They each Will be required to do fifty
fve hours work each week. an average
Of more than nine hours a day for six
days OF the week This work includes
forty-two hours of scholastic work and
thirteen hours of military training.
That Is where the rub comes in as
FAR as football is concerned. Carrying
such heavy schedule II will be almost
b impossible for the men to devote any
time to special football training. A
youth who labors more than nine hours
day, say from s o'clock in the morn
ing until at night, Is not likely to feel
Ike going out for a grdilron drill"
At Annapolis and West Point, how
ever, where the curriculum calls for
much longer and harder study hours,
football for years has been maintained.
Now with both Government military
and naval schools going under full war
pressure in an endeavor to turn out
officers in much less time than under
"a
cadets still find time for football, and
lots Of IT,
The reference to West Point and An
napolis calls to mind the fact that the
West Pointers should throw a wonder
ful eleven into the fray this season.
Last falls great Army team is intact
with the exception OF Oliphant and
knight. For the loss of the great Oil
u Ant the Army will be compensated
by the return OF Vidal, considered by
many to be Just as great player as
the blond headed battering ram that
ripped jagged holes IN the opposing lines
last season.
Reports from Annapolis have 1t the
middies will be represented by the best
team that has worn the Navy blue for
years Besides the veterans Coach Gil
Iobie can draw for the largest and rich
est IN football material first year class
mat ever has been at Annapolis Many
college and scholastic football cracks
s-e among the first year men at the
school on the Severn.
Most Of the football at Camp Dix and
camp Upton during the early fall will
BE- devoted to intercompany and inter-
fegimental games. Later will come the
o'lsonal games, and then the match
contests with rival cantonments. 1t is
hl hat ,.-iIt he
TaNr between elevens from the nearby
ccantonments and the Columbia. Stevens
\ /. l. and Fordham teams. Stevens
~ Tact, Is scheduled to play the Pelham
naval Reserves at Castle Field Hobo
Ken, on November 2.
Task for Sanford.
Foster Sanford. the football mentor
az Rutgers. keenly Is DESTROYS of ar.
ranging games with soldier teams The
great machine with which Sanford
moved down all opposition last season.
Inc team ttat smeared Eddie Mahan's
marines 81 TO 0. and then crushed Cupit
h!acks Newport Naval Reserves IA e
mas lost many of its important cogs
sdntord's entire backheld has answered
,ne call TO the colors. and only one oil
TWO OF his veteran linemen still are a.
lie Olu ale star, however
can be depended on to turn out an
oLner good team at Rutgers The mar
VINO has the reputation OF being able t.
Ms'!l bulldog courage into a kitten ism
gong TO balk at any little thing lik,
having to develop a green team
another college coach who has hope
ot arranging meetings between hi
rnarEes and service elevens is Hug
hezdek OF Penn State In his role a
manager OF the Pitt sburg team of tn
national League Beztek showed wha
can be expected OF him in football Beg
ueH practically was green" as a piofes
s'ohal baseball manager, yet he achieved
spiendld success with the Pirates. Foot
pSl! Is Hugo's own game. the sport Il
Nn'ch he was a bright college star an
Sudfh' Hence experts are looking 10
State
Navy VIII he Busy.
There will be plenty OF football in tn
navy both among the men of the fleet
ana the men at the naval training sta
IONS Walter Camp. dean OF Yale foot
nstl and Commissioner of Navy Ath
tetcs on the Commission for Trainin
amp Activities. will see to that. II
pans to foster and encourage football
u' navy to a greater extent than las
season. cf
II was not until near the close Of tn
1911 season that Frank Bergin, IN
princeton quarterback. organised tn
pelham Bay N. r. s eleven. This yea
me Pelham Bay Tars will be In the 100