Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-06
CAR Of FOOTBALL
To RULE GR|D|RON
Of WESTERN TEAMS
Experiment Similar to That Be.
ing Tried in Business
Being Adopted.
By WALTER CAMP
Special Correspondent Of The Great Fails Trikane
Colyrisht. 1872. ny The Great Fall. Tribune

hpeciAt CORRESPONDENT OF Inc dfedf FdHt tflDuRS.
Copyright. 1922. by The Great Falls Tribune
New York, Aug. 5.-Within a month
the gridiron gladiators will be booting
long spiral punts across the football
arenas; on the side lines the husky
line candidates will be plunging at the
padded stanchions, the stocky backs
will be straining at the bucking straps:
the peddlers. whose single sales phrase
is get your winnin' colors," will be
placing their orders for the season.
supply Of pennants.
A few slight changes in the rules
will go into effect but so far as can
be seen now, the season promises moth
ing of a revolutionary nature. There
is just one possibility of a marked
change. Shall we have a commission
pr of athletics for the eastern colleges
beginning with the coming football sea
son? Will the conference of the presi-
dents of Harvard, Yale and Princeton
result in a decision to follow the lead
of the Big Ten of the western confer
ence?
Naming Major Griffiths Of the Uni.
~versity of Illinois to act as the VIII
Hays of 10 great middle western col
leges whose policies are decided in con
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many as a novelty in athletics. The
fact that a group of colleges should
look to one man to arbitrate their diff
ferences and to act as a guide in the
formulation of new policies has seemed
to many to give evidence that the col
lege athletic can no longer be depended
upon to recognize the justice of a ri
walls contentious but must submit diff
farannac To m arhtfar Snnp aIumnI
are saying that it is a backward STEP
in the effort to make college athletics
the last word in craftsmanship.
Merely because professional baseball
found need for q dictator or arbiter, ant
because such has been created for the
producers for the legitimate stage anc
for the movies, does not imply 1t
would not be satisfactory for the col
lege sports as well. In the old days
a football game was directed by on'
official, the referee. Now there IS s
referee, an umpire. a field judge ant
q head linesman with assistants. Col
lege players need and desire in amateur
sport the same supervision that pro
fessional sport requires.
For the matter of that, directors
are becoming common. England seems
close to such a plan. English golfers
would like to see a dictator who woult
define the amateur golfer.
All sorts Of committees have beer
tried out time and time again in sports
but it has always finally reached the
stage where either one member be
came the dominant member of the
committee and ran it to his liking oil
else a coach was obtained who ran thu
sport and the committee as well. Wher
either Of these things occurred thu
sport suffered and the organization wal
beaten by almost any other organlza
ton run by a director.
The experiment, however. of having
a czar or commissioner who shall maxi
colleges live up to rules. play far, enc
professionalism and attain the ideal o
craftsmanship is yet TO be tried out
The western conference will make thu
experiment.. Now the great question
is: Will the east do likewise?