El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-10-15
Football, Themside Game ,;
RAISING Your Opponents .


D burning with anger and his foot
ban sense twisted uskeW.
l Many a time an end player OF enc
team has shouted 20 a halfback On
/ the other side, Come around this
l end you yellow dog. and I'll break
your neck in eight pieces" A player
Z with q handsome face Is certain &C
I have its beauty threatened by the
! opposition, and any man who has q
] reputation Of lacking the least bit Of
courage is sure OF the razzlug OF his
lie
Is hest when Ahead.
This sinister scheme Of razzing
I your enemy works at its best, o.
course. when your side IS ahead and
Z his Is trailing A man who has made
some reputation IN the newspapers as
being g star has a tough afternoon
IL he fails 20 live up 70 that reuu-
tation- As soon as a team finds the
secret Of thwarting one OF these stars
1t VIII begin Co ride him numerically
and ask him how much his fake press
notices cost Sarcasm Of the rough
est sort VIII always be found in foot
bah games, and I am sure that all
the Wanted repartee Of the baseball
diamond would sound very weak Il
compared with the rough verbal lash
inEs that are released in a big foot
BAH game
I wen remember the grlliug that
a certain Yale star got one afternoon
at Cambridge when Eddie Mahan's
team was trimming the Ellis 81 to o.
This Yale boy had been a prep
school Eridirou celebrity around
Boston several years before. and
when he came to choose a col
leEe he elected Yale a. he Entds
beeauHe he wanted 70 play on
winning football team.7 Il hap
ueued that Taie'g football for
tune was at its lowest ebb In the
several years that followed his
choice Of college but some OF
HIS former prep school mates
didn't forget the acrlckn he once
made. You can imagine what
they did to him on the field that
afternoon, with his team being
horeIe1siy beaten n they re-
MINDED him that he had chosen
to 50 to Yale 70 he could play
on a aTinuinE team
There are always threats OF bodily
harm flung back and forth between
two teams The line men and the
secondary defenders wiz glare and
maybe show their teeth as they EurL
challenges 90 opposing halfback8 to
take the ball and come their way.
All degrees OF torture ana naming
are promised. from broken backs 20
outright murder, but Of course that
sort OF bantering loses its effect be-
cause % Is practised 90 universally
IL Is when your opponents have some !
thing definite "on" you IN person .
that the razzing program gets re- I
suits. II takes q nan OF steel nerve /
10 laugh of the sarcasm, jeers and I
smeers Of the opposing horde.
But &c also must be remembered /
that some OF the players let that sort /
o. thing act upon them IN the orpo- :
site way. II an end threatens you i
with bodily harm II you come his .
way. and perhaps also lu1mateB that /
you're yellow, IL "a sweet revenge in /
deed II you come his way and bow .
him over and make g long gain The i
laugh ig On the other side then, anc /
somebody else's goat nay be cap
tured. And that frequently occurs
An this that I have recorded
nay sound very fierce and VIC
lent, but the minute the final
whistle is blown. Il r. altogether
forgotten RazzinE IS na much q
part Of the game ~ puutinEs and
have never known Of q ease
where . player hErboEH = dislike
OF the Eridirou for any OF the
remarlH made IN the stress Of
play.