Evening star., 1926-11-09
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.
VIEW YORK. November

N yEW YORK. November o.
mi The Big Three, which SO
VI often has set the fashion OF
reform in many ways, ought
TO convene and do something about
the goal post wrecking exploits OF
victorious partisans after foot ball
game of importance has been played.
1t is a pernicious custom, and aside
from the bad taste involved and the
lurking ill-feeling engendered, it is a
dangerous practice. Some one is 60
ing to be badly hurt some afternoon.
So far as the writer can trace the
evil. it was inaugurated by Yale
rooters in the 1928 game at Cambridge
when the Ellis. after many lean years,
defeated the Crimson. Since then
this vandalism has become general
nanit. at least on the Atlantic sea
board.
Perhaps if the various college ath-
letic authorities had maintained an at
titude Of complacence toward this
lootng Of goal postS-which, after all.
are inexpensive and easily replaced
the custom would have died sooner
or later in accordance with the length
Of time il required for undergraduates
to tumble to themselves.
Sinister Element Enters.
But it is pretty hard to lose foot
ball game and sit and watch the snake
dancing victors with equanimity,
even when no violence is done. When
property is destroyed a certain sinister
element enters that has nothing to DO
with sport.
Harvard showed how she felt about
1t by placing police guard under
each set of goal posts Immediately the
Princeton game had ended. 1t was
decided error in judgment and the
more or less amiab BILE riot that followed
might we'll have been converted into
q perilous situation, had not the po-
licemen kept their heads.
Some underSt nding ought to be ef-
fected that will end this sort OF non
sense. 1t is a practice that taxes the
tolerance of even better intercollegiate
friends than Harvard and Princeton
are. This being 50. 1t has no place
among the aftermath of sporting con-
tests.
Hardly week before Jake Slagle
romped out upon the Harvard grid
iron, fit to play his role OF nemesis to
The Harvard foot ball eleven, 1t
seemed unlikely that he ever again
would carry the ball in an intercoi-
legiate game.
That knee. which had suffered in
fury upon Summer geological trip,
had yielded outwardly to the treat
ment of skilled physicians and Yet
Slagle could neither run with any
drive nor crow hop with eluslVeness.
1t was then that Phil Brashier the
old Tiger end. and former chief OF
scouts. entered into the situation. Go
ing to Bill Roper, he asked the
coach's permission to take SlaEle INTO
New York Bill told him to go ahead,
SO Fra Shier took the star back TO
an osteopath. Half a glance seemingly
was an that was required for the
hone doctor To see that one of Jake's
legs was more than an inch shorter
than the other. In other words, his
hip was out of place.
The osseoilS expert snapped the
bone into rightfu position and next
afternoon Slaele was skipping about
the glidirun like Il mountain goat.
One of the extremely important
games Of the foot ball season takes
place next Saturday in New York
when the Army and Notre Dame re-
new their ancient grudge.
Never did a contest hold more
opnortunitieS for advance dope.
Power versus speed. Can the West
Point forwards knife into the Hoosler
hackfield in time to break up forma- p
tions as was done last year at the
Polo Grounds?
or will the South Bend line be able
20 meet the charge and hnrl il back?
Brute force, fierce driving power up