Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-03
INTEREST IN SOCCER
NOW IS NATION WIDE
Educational Institutions
and Industrial Establish
nlents Recognise Its
Value in Physical De-
relopment.
BY DOUGLAS STEWART

Coach Of the University of PNnnsylvania
Soccer Eleven. IntercOllcEiatc Champions
| THE development of association foot
- ball, commonly called soccer, within
recent years, has been little short of
| phenomenal. For about fifteen years
the game has been played in the colleges
comprising the Intercollegiate League,
namely. 1Iaverford. Pennsylvania. IIar-
ward, Yale. Columbia. Cornell and
Princeton, and in few Of the prcpara-
tory schools, including Andovcr. Exeter.
Gilman, Tome. st. Paul's, st. Luke's.
IIaverford. Episcopal, George School and
Westtown Academy.
In and around Philadelphia the cricket
clubs. comprising Merton. PHILADELPHIA,
Ecrmantown and Moorcstown. have
maintained teams. and in New York
teams represent Staten Island Cricket
! Club. Crescent Athletic. as well as
! Montclair Field Club. This, in addi-
| ton to various teams made up of Brit
iShcrs employed in New York, Philadcl- =
pha. Boston. Bridgeport. Newark. Chi
cago, Detroit, Pittsburgh and other
| cities.
Schools Foster Sport
In recent years the private and pub E
lie school authorities have awakened to
the possibilities Of the game in the way
of physical development of growing boys
with the result that in most of the large
cities high and grammar school leagues
have been organized. This is particu-
larly the case in Philadelphia, New
York, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Chicago
st. Louis, Detroit, Rochester, Cleveland
and Memphis.
Not only has the game developed in
the schools, but also in the colleges
for in addition to those comprising the
Intercollegiate League the game is now
played in Penn State, Syracuse. Col
gate. Dartmouth. Girard, New YOrl
, University, California. Leland Stan.
ford, Oregon, Ohio State, Ohio Wesley
an, Springfield. Mass, Swarthmorc
Baylor University. Texas, as well n
I the L. S. Military Academy. at Wcs
Point, and the L. :. Naval Academy, a
e Annapolis, and many others.
e In st. Louis, Chicago. Detroit. Pitts
burgh. Baltimore, Philadelphia an
e New York the game is played by lhous
4 intrnSchuol and intcrSchOol and depart
!. mcnt games are numerous. They hav
! grammar school leagues, high schoo
: leagues. vocational school leagues, priv
Il ate school leagues to such an eXtrr
0 that one wonders where all the player
Is get 10 and why there are not more team
= Of grown ups playing the game.
Il In Philadelphia among the grown NJ
- there are the Allied League, the Cricli
ct CIub League. the Industrial L"agu
the Pennsylvania Il. II. League and Il
II Financial League. making up n tot
Il of some hundred aud fifty or mo-
teams. PENNSYLVANIA is also the hon
n of the great Bethlehem Steel Go. Tea
It which after having won all the chan
q piouships available in the United State
Travelled to Continental Europe al
y raincd few more laurels there.
t. New York state and Connecticut tn,
are numerous. Massachusetts. IllinOi
Z. M-ouri. Michigan, Ohio, WisconSi
IS California and Texas and other stat
J. are going in for the game with real el
thuSiaSm.
This great development in the gar
is based simply on its inherent mcri
On and without any definite knowledge