The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-11-28
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I course beautiful whether or not It is
! mistaken.
/ The scouts. the volunteer aids. tho
! tutors. students and others who try to
! hold good players up in scholarship Is
! merely mistaken enthusiasm and BELIEF
! that they are aiding the sChool-which,
! in many cases they are not.
! The sudden cessation Of these efforts
after football season gives Il queer
| change OF form Of some OF the athletes
/ In the classroom. Yet 1t Is strange
! thing that the really great football
! players. the fellows who have brains
/ and football instinct" on the field. be-
| sides their physical prowess. usually arc
| excellent students and stand high. One
! college sepds we list Of seven men
! who played regularly on the team who
are honor men in their claesses.
The remedy for these conditions Is
! simple, and it Is in the hands OF tho
! faculty Of any school. We start with
! the assumption that the college profess
sor Is a bonehead in everything except
! ing the classroom. but nothing Is fur
! Their from the truth. The average col
! lego professor Is pretty keen student
OK sport. and knows the games.
The remedy for all these conditions
/ is a strIcter application OF the scholar
/ ship rules. Admitting that II takes a
! brave and an unSelriSh professor to fire
star football players off che team the
! day before big game-it has been done,
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AZ to Ohio state.
In spite OF its unexpected defeat at
! the hands OF Illinois. Ohio State still
/ has rea son TO be extremely proud OF Its
football record. The defeat was more
/ or less OF an accident OF course, but
then Ohio deserved to be beaten II 1t
was not strong enough to score at least
! twice against Illinois. which had not
won a conference game in tho season.
| Ohio, however, is comforting Itself on
! the fact that II leads tho conference.
! although II Is the baby OF the Big Ten.
/ II has been in the conference only nine
years, during which II has won 20 and
lost 10 games. with one tie. Illinois. In
those same years, has won 80 and lost
Is and tied 5. Chicago has won 80 and
lost y with 2 ties. Michigan. which
was out OF the conference for years has
! won and lost games during the nine
years, and Iowa. Minnesota and Wlscon-
sin all have won more than 90 per cent
OF their conference games.
The success or tho conference now
trem5les In the balance Unless the
colleges composing the Big Ten agree
10 Schedule at last i've conference
games each year among themselves. and
cut out the clashes which prevent the
/ big teams from meeting, they might as
we'll cut out the conference. In tact
IL would be better IL they abandoned
entirely the Big Ten idea. which makes
any championship schedule Impossible
but 10 form IL comprehensive conference
70 agree upon rules. especially those
governing Professionalism. Include all
the middle western colleges. and got
somewhere.
There Is a game which !s coming
along with amazing rapidity IN the
eastern cities. 4 game originated by the
kids In the streets. and which has be-
come the rago all over Now York. Phil
adelphia and Boston. In way the
game was the result OF necessity. born
or the war tax which laid 10 per
cent levy upon all the tools the Kids
use In their games. and put bats. gloves
and masks above the reach OF the Kid
purse. They call the game punch
ball" All It Is Is baseball played with
the hands alone The Kids bat the
bali with bare hands, run the bases and
play exactly as II. on baseball fold
They can lay out diamond in any city
street with first and third bases against
the curgS, aud II tho batter the second
haseman and the Shortstop can dodge
autos the game proceeds merrily.