Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-16
O'BRIEN WILL
REFEREE BEVY
OF BIG GAMES
Increasing Favor of Gridiron
Creates More Demand
for Officials.
By WALTER CAMP
Special Correspondent Of The Great Falls Ifleuns.

Copyright. 1922. by The Great fahs iIiOone
New York. Oct. 14.-Football critics
would do well to make a study OF the
officials who are to handle the I'M
portant games this fali. Dr. T.. D.
.O'Rrien comes to the front as a most
important parsonage with a schedule
such as would have been the envy OF
even the star old timers, such as Paul
DashieIl. Seward Coffin, Bill L~angford;
Dave Fultz. Tiny Maxwell and Al
Sharpe. who were wont to be on the
perpetual go with assignments TO all the
OBrien is scheduled for 1ale-lowa,
Yale = Williams, Harvard = Dartmouth
Penn State-Navy, Pittsburgh,fenh;
Penn-Penn State, Yale-Eiarvard ana
Pittsburgh-Penn State. And by that
time the doctor will be entitled TO d
little rest and recreation. -.
w. r. Crowley has also q very lalr
list of assignments and will be an ex,,
merit on the quality of a number OF
teams when he finishes the following:
Yale-Bates, Harvard-Centre and 1aie-
: West Point. w. G.. Crowell will see
the following games at the expense OF
, the management: Princeton-Colgate
Rrown-Lehigh. Penn State-Syracuse,
Penn State-Navy, Lafayette Washing
ron Jefferson and Lafayette-Lehigin'
G. !. McCarty has come up rapidly
into the favor of the big fellows anu
will handle Penn-Swarthmore, rem
State Syracuse, Cornell =
Penn-Penn State, Lafayette-Lehigh ana
Pittsburgh-Penn State.
Eckersal in the West
Walter Eckersall,. the star little
quarter years ago of the Chicago team
now grown considerably stouter or 1lg-
ure. will handle Minnesota-N INV
ern. Illinois Michigan. Notre lame
Purdue and Northwestern = lllnols'
Dave Fultz acts in Navy.Georgla IeGn'
Pittsburgh-Penn. and IN the iae
Princeton he will serve as umplree;;
Ernest Ouigley, a new departure, wih
handle the fouls in the Harvard-1ale
game and the Yale-Army contest, and
will he referee in the Haryard-Centre
game, The Notre Dame-Army gam
WAS n huge job last year and nearly
drove the officials crazy so that up 10
date only two of the officials are as
vet chosen. and they are two strapplne
big fellows who are not likely TO OF
ratified namely, Ed Thorpe and Harry
Kersberg.
Murphy Has Hard Tasks
Fred w, Murphy has as usual some
excellent assignments taking the Pitts
burgh-West Virginia,
more, West Virginia. Rutgers, WASH
ington Jefferson Lafayette, P~lttsourgh
Washington Jefferson and washington
Jefferson-west Virginia. Hackett. th'
old West Pointer, who formerly han
died so many games in the east, ha'
strong assignments in the western field
acting in Notre Dame-Purdue, Mich
= gan-O Ohio State, Princeton-C Chicago, IL
iinois- Chicago and Michigan Minnesota
Mike Thompson. too, as Official VINE
always keeps the crowd posted, ha'
some hard jobs in Pittsburgh-We
Virginia. Navy Georgia Tech and Col
gate-C Columbia. go
Harry Costello. another efficien
man. is coming into the field more an
more and will o~fficiate in Pittsburgh
Cincinnati, Pittsburgh Syracuse an,
| Syracuse-Nebraska Dick" Merritt
e the old Yale baseball and football play
| or. is deservedly coming on, and act
= in Penn warthmore and Rutgers
. Rucknell. Altogether it looks like
strong list, but it also shows that tn
central board must begin to break /
new blood as the demand increases.