New Britain herald., 1927-10-11
SET GOAL POSTS AT YANKEE FIELD
Transition Of Stadium to Foot
 ball Gridiron Under Way

1 III 1aIlhee stadium today they're 1 digging holes for goal posts just about where Jovo Milius stood when ! he let fly the last wild fling Of the ! baseball year.
 Parallel white chalk lines traverse i the base paths around which the New York Yankees scampered to a
 words championship. Against chill October sky, a pig |. skin oval eclipses the old familiar horsehide sphere. The transition of Yankee stadium
 from baseball park to a football | field is symbolic of the shifting Of i the nations interest from post mor- tems on the national pastime 10 af- , fairs of the Erdiron. IL is indicative. moreover. of the lnmcnsltT of that national interest in football which requires every available flat acre for q playing tl'td-proyided it be surrounded with high fences and turnstiles. The nations interest in football has made q new game of it. For ex- ample:
 Those whose attention has been "nsroSSed of late by the blistoring finish fight for the flag in the Ma tional loaguo, the biting of homers hy Babe Ruth in the American. and Inc swift victory of the Yankees in h" World series, find the football st@Son already well under way.
 IL is season typical of tho new era in football.
 Already the colors Of Yalr. liar yard. Brown. Colgate and Penn Stat"-to mention few of the ma jor "asualtios--havc been tramplod ln tho brown October dust.
 But inc word "up%ct," as appllcd to tho outcome of a football game. has lost it's meaning. There is a r"2son for this. which can he traced directly back 10 the n9tional inter ""t which the sport haS aroused within in" past few years.
 Since the war. football ceased to ha an absorbing intercollegiate sport ana grew into q national institution. II became, in q couple or words, ''big business"
 Football b"cam" at once the most profitable of collegiate ontornrisas one" in" public began 10 demand the privilege of paying big prices to s4c games which formerly attracted only alumni and their rosy ci.okcd s""eth"arts. b"dork-d in r3ccoon and CrlsHuthomumS.
 When the public took 10 football football went to the hrad of inc class in every institution Of learning in the lan1.
 There followed 2 good lcvclins off O th" high standard of play former ly concentrated in tn" hj@ schools.
 Good coaching became an osson- tjal commodity with | nationwide market. Men who could toach the RocAn" system. for example. found their s"ryio"s very mnch in do- manl
 Last saturday. for instance. Tur- due. which Wallop>d Harvard. was coach>d by Jimmy Phna1, prod net of the Notr" Dame football school. Georgia which defeated Vale had Jim Crowley one of the famous "Four Horosomcn." for its backfirld coach. These are not isolated cx- 
 Nor is Nnuto Eoc,no the only coach who's" players have graduated and Gon" out 10 make football bloom where ono" it merely hIoomrrcl.
 The fact that the smaller ins;itu- tons have found that they can make 't lot of money between September 24 and Manufacturing Day if they wifi @lN" back part Of it for good coach ing has raised the standard of play throughout th" country.
 Where "upSet' once meant the topping of q big college team by q lttl" college team. the word has been rendered almost obsolete hv tu. I"\"Iin%-oIt procrSS-a proc, ss some mon have called recommendation"