The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08
THINGS SOON WILL
HUM ON GRIDIRoN
Government Officials Nav
Recommend Football at
All Colleges.
SPORT Is SPREADING
NJ GEORGE b. UNDERw oOD.

esssAe shV spoftiHS nOTlZOn tne leaves
are starting to fall and occasional hints
OF q tang in the air foretell the ap-
proach of King Football. Already the
call for candidates has been sounded
In many quarters. Early birds among
the coaches even have the pigskin out
and are showing the boys Just how
or how MOTTO fall on the ball. chasing
them down the field under punts and
schooling them in the rudiments Of the
game.
Football is in for one of It's biggest
seasons. That may sound absurd to
some of the readers. Pooh! they will
say. what are Harvard and Yale going
to do In football? Why have
Bowdoin and Georgetown cancelled
their schedules? There can't be any
football at Carlisle. seeing the Gov
ernment Indian school has suspended.
How about the new draft? Where are
the colleges and clubs to get football
material with every ablebodied male
NON 1s to IS with the colors?
Regarding the stand OF Harvard and
Yale In football It can be said that at
nenher institution has 1t definitely been
decided to abandon football. The
chances are. in fact that Government
omcers who will be assigned to the
fwo colleges will recommend football
rs necessary part of the training.
Certainly no sport makes more for
courage. seh-reliance, aggressiveness,
GOODNESS under great stress, stoicism to
pain and other soldierly qualities.
Foster Service Football.
Government experts recognize the
value of competitive athletics and It is
compulsory at all OF the training can
comments. Football was encouraged in all
or the environments last season. Will 1t
De discouraged at the various colleges,
which under Government supervision
virtually will be turned into training
Eantonments. when Uncle Sam becomes
President Emeritus of most of our in
ptitutions Of learning?
Many Of the colleges which have not
rome In for football or that have can
celled their schedules will do a right
about face before the last of October.
sport In general. or more particu-
iarly professional sport and the pro-
Ressional in sport. has suffered from
mas benefited by 1t. Walter Camp,
Commissioner of Athletics. United
States Navy. in his article on "war ana
rcofball' In Golfers Weekly aptly de-
ecrfbes the effects OF the world con-
nict on the game. Mr. Camp in part
says:
what Walter Camp Says.
War, whatever II may have done in
Wrecking colleges schedules. has brought
about far wider dissemination of foot
ball as sport than all the exhorta-
tions Of those who have advocated play
FOR the larger numbers have ever been
able to accomplish. At Yale, Harvard
and Princeton. due to reasons discussed
somewhat later. there have been. 1t Is
erue. fewer men on the gridiron. But
elsewhere. and particularly in the coun-
TRY at large. the great cantonments OF
the army and the naval stations the
spread OF the game has been something
beyond the most vivid Imagination OF
those who thought that there might be
an opportunity for athletics among men
iof the service. Thanks to the efforts of
fhe Commission on Training Camp Ac-
fivities. at both stations and canton
lments II has not been an extraordinary
condition to find even dozen teams at
work. besides quite number on scrub
1ootball as WELL And when in the be-
Ginning of this paragraph the word dis
6eminatioR' Is used II Is used advisedly,
for the distribution of former college
lplayers has brought about a condition
! which never could have prevailed with
out this mixing in of leaven of expert
a
scrub team or an army or a navy team
there might be some men who had
played at West Point or Annapolis, to-
day there may be on single team men
nom a half dozen or more different COL
leges who have had three or four years
experience in varsity football. and that
within very recent years. SO that their
knowledge Of the game Is up to date.
"No better illustration of this could
he given than the lineup of four teams
playing in New England on Thanksgiv-
1ng Day. In these four teams alone
there were representatives of Indiana,
yale. Washington and Jefferson, Colgate
princeton. Muhlenberg. Georgetown
Dartmouth. Holy Cross. Pennsylvania.
Penn State. Syracuse. Cornell. Univer-
atty of Virginia Wesleyan and the Uni
iversity of California"
There will be more football in the
various army and naval training canton
ments and stations this season than
there was last year. In addition the
service and college teams will meet more
frequently. Here in New York 1t al
ready is planned to stage game at the
Polo Grounds between the Foster San
ford coached Rutgers eleven, which last
.lyear ranked with Georgia Tech and
lPittsburg as the leading American
Ielevens. and Sol Metzger's gridiron glad
iators from Camp Dix.
Many Local Games.
Frank Bergens Pelham Bay Naval
5Graining Station team will meet the
stevens eleven at Hoboken on Novem-
Der. 2. At Camp Merritt the Tenafy
soidiers can be counted on for some
rood football. Capt. Frank Click. an
other Princeton football star, will have
several eievens at Camp Upton.
with the Mineola Aviators. who with
De coached by Dave Fultz and Bill Wall,
IN moleskins and the Brooklyn Federal
Rendezvous and Brooklyn Armed Guard
also playing the game New York GER
aainiy will not be lacking in football
this autumn. Two big college games,
Syracuse VS.. Dartmouth and Colgate VS..
Rutgers, are scheduled for the Polo
Grounds. = Columbia. New York Univer-
atty and Stevens also will be seen here
IN several games.
the Great Lakes Naval Training Sta
hon Coach Herman p. (Bo) Olcott. the
former Yalensian, will throw another
xsorkinr team into the fray. The Great
Lakes Naval Training Stations sched-
| 's,1es calls for several important games
nth colleges, notably with the Univer-
D1afv Of Pittsburg. replacing the Pan
S9erS date with Carlisle at Pittsburg on
October s. and with Notre Dame on
.yc~vernber 9. DIR Billy Bull promises to
A.vs auother eleven at the Newport
TrainInG station akin to the great ag-
~ration that sported the moleskin there