New Britain herald., 1925-11-10
PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL
 MAKES HISTORY

iOolDalI games are pclNB playeu with astonishing regularity that many of the great stars of the game are enrolled upon the professional teams, and that large crowds are attending the games. In other words, football fans, large proportion of whom have great difficulty in ob taining pasteboards for the college games, are focking to the profes- sonal games to get their fill of foot ball thrills.
 This development was long com- ing, but is entirely logical. There Is no reason why football cannot be "professionalized" as well as base ball. The only chief argument against it has been that 1t couldn't be done" that it hasn't been done" and that 1t wouldn't be done" Now we find that it has been done and the achievement in every way seems to be successful.
 What brought about professional football more than anything else was the inability of the colleges 10 provide sufficient seating capacity for the throngs wishing to see the games. There have been large blocks of citizens interested In the game who were willing to pay to see 1t played, but could not get near col- | lege game for the proverbial Hove or money" When this year numer- ous stars of the college games sign ed up with the football teams which are members of the National League of Football teams the prosperity of ! professional football was greatly accelerated. Here is a chance for the i football fans to see the former col lcge stars in action. and 1t is not necessary to attempt in vain 10 gain
 admittancc 10 the Yale bowl, the
 Harvard stadium, or the Palmer
 stadium.
 The crowds at the professional football games this year have been
 remarkable for the first year of the
 present football league, The profcs-
 sional games in New York, played
 at the Polo Grounds, have been at
 tracing 10000 persons. Unlike pro-
 fessional football games that were
 attempted in previous years. the
 games under inc new professional dispcnsation are not slam bang af-
 fairs-Which was chief criticism
 against the quality of attempted
 professional football in the past
 With such college stars as "Hinky'
 Haines former Penn State All
 American half back, the stein broth. CTS, both of whom were on the All
 American team, Jim" Thorpe, the famous Indian player from Carlyle and Alexander, tho All-Americal center on the professional teams the styl" of play has become as sub tic as on most college grilirons. : In an edition of the Yale Reyiev the development of profcssiOna football was dcplorcd as "ruining the prestige of game that hereto . fore has been almost cxcluivel identified with the athletics of edu . catonal institutions. But the liar ward LampO0n returned the fir
 most effcctually. we think, when replied that professional footha was a good thing in that it wou , tend 10 keep the crowds down at th . col. go games and might in tim . bring the college games back { l what they were originally infcndc e 10 bc-gcntlcmanly games betwoc - the various educational institution . in which the general public was nc
 10 be thc main consideration,
  = Professional football has develol ; cd brcauso there is q wide field fC o it's manifestations. The public lik' x football games every fall and if II e colleges cannot supply the dcmar Q Of the thousands wanting 10 & y their gamcs-which they cannot ( '' irrespective of the vast areas c their gridiron plants--it behoov u cntcrprising professionals to cater
 tho public wishes. There is no har y in il. the public is getting what = wants, and sundry players are ab Q 10 earn some few honest dolalrs.
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