The Washington herald., 1920-02-08
Many Fail to Call Fouls,
Causing Game to Get Be-
yond Control-Referee
Given Little Help from
Umpire.
CBy JOHN A. DU6AO

There is a great deal of criti-
ciem holding the limelight at pres
ent in regard to the way college
eSames are officiated in the local
ranks. Some of the colleges do not
seem 70 be playing the game for
sports -sake but are developing a
7sirit of sports to win, regardless
cost.
4 few days ago the Catholic Uni
ycsity-Delaware College game re-
sited IN a big scrape, with charges
q unsportsmanlike conduct being
pred against beth players and Of
nals. This trouble had no more
TIM died the natural death of un-
ddrable things. than the feud
ofke out again Friday light at the
Ran gym when Georgetown and
Jons Hopkins staged the toughest
gale that has been played in the
Dtrfct In a number of years.
eg. Game n Joke.
There is little sense in rafting
the skeleton on what caused the
trouble. For some unknown reason
one local newspaper refused to
print a/line on the sad happenings.
Perhaps because it was against the
press agents frame of mind to say
anything that would corrupt the
morale, while another handled the
event as a joke. II dive tackling,
H1sing elbows for blocking and ac-
tual throwing of fist. to such an
extent that a quartette of athletes
are banished from the fray. is to
be taken as a joke. then IL must
be admitted that life in the Ar
gonne forest was mere boys play.
compared to either of these clubs.
when they get a little rough
After the Catholic U.-Delaware
trouble 1 talked with several coach
IS and officials and found that foul
offense after foul offense is COM
mitted in every game that gets by
without being called do not pre-
tend to be an expert on this great
est OF all indoor sports. The Herald
has on its stan one of the best
known authorities of the game. In
sn effort to dig to the bottom of
this growing trouble I Immediately
referred to a rule book and pro-
ceeded to digest il.
school game clean.
During the last few weeks 1 have
schools and found that there was a
vast difference in the cleanliness of
the game as compared with those
played by the colleges. The high
school teams seem to be coached to
pay strict attention to every rule con-
tained in the manual, and the officials
have little trouble enforcing every in
fringcm cment that OCCURS. Why college
games cannot be officiated with the
same strict compliance with the rules
~ beyond me.
In talking this question over
sTith several prominent officials and
coaches they made the statement that
IL every penalty was called in a college
contest the game would develop into a
free goal tossing game. If the high
school coaches can develop their
CUNTS to play the game in strict OBJ
servance of the rules why is it that
college mentors cannot do the same?
II does not seem to me that II would
be necessary for the calling of too
many penalties in college contests if
the coaches were on the job and COM
PEELED their teams to practice and
play the game in accordance with the
rules.
Oficlals Jealous
There appears to be a certain
amount of jealousy between the ref
cree and umpire officiating in the
same contests. 1t has been stated by
several well known officials VINO have
been called upon to umpire instead of
referee that they were not supposed
to call fouls that should be called hy
the referee, and although they see
them committed and not called by the
referee they let them go by and they
are not called.
In studying the rules 1 particu-
larly observed that the umpire has
the power to call any foul COM
mitted on any part of the court.
In witnessing several college con-
tests / noticed that a certain foul