Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-15
.SET-UPS BECOMING
FEWER EACH YEAR
Times Not Like They Used
to Be, Since little" Teams
Now Are "Big."
BY WALTER TRUMBULL.

A FOOT BALL season is approach
" ing in which there is not likely
"A to be many sst-upS and in
4 a which there Is likely to be many
upsetS The schedules are get
ting tough, not because the teams of
games, but because soft opponents have
become somewhat rarer than flock Of
pterodactylS.
A 22o-pound college may decide to
take on lightweight for exercise. The
result frequently approximates sitting
on tack, where 1t doesn't even more
resemble sitting on a cloud and starting
anything about it, the discovery is made
that the little fellow was wearing a
horseshoe in one mitt and brass knuckles
in the other
1t was only short time ago, as your
T. fathers will tell you, that a European
traveller hurrying home for the holidays
on swift 12-day boat would scarcely
have to ask who won the foot ball
championship. He would know it must
ton or Pennsylvania. These teams used
to eat. their dessert first. They would
have cream puffS and cuStard pie, con-
sisting Of outside colleges, and then play
among themselves to see whose turn 1t
was to be champion.
Lafayette Starts Trouble.
Those were the days of great empires.
Finally Lafaye tie, led by trouble makers
named Rinehart and Barclay. got a
draw decision with Princeton and gave
Pennsylvania a stylish sock in the eye.
This almost caused a congressional in
vesttgation, and did start all this
trouble, continuing ever since, over the
rights of small nations.
Walter Camp started to pick his ALI
America elevens in 1889. Look them
over. For six happy years no man out
side of the royal families of Yale, Har-
In 1895 Wycoff Of Cornell came in,
showed one of the royalists off throne
and established a precedent. Hersch-
berger of Chicago got seat on the i'm
perial exchange in 1898, Senega OF
Carlisle stole in with Indian cunning in
1899 and Merely of Columbia occupied
the visitors chair in 1900. Right here
you find proof Of that old adage that
runs, Give man a musical scale and
he'll take the piano." or something like
that. After 1900, things went all to
pieces.
The next season Warner of Cornell
Weekes of Columbia and Bunker and
DAILY of the Army forced their way to
the seats Of the mighty in a body.
Monarchy was tottering on its cleated
shoes, but it made the best stand it
could. Not until 1913 did the repre-
sentatives of outside institutions out
number those Of Harvard, Yale, Prince
ton and Pennsylvania on an All-Amer-
lea eleven. Some still claim this was
one of the causes of the World War
the following year.
Some Gases in Point.
Now the world appears safe for de-
. mocracy. Do you happen to remember
the teams which finished last season
united and indicated? Just in case
you don't, we'll name some of them.
They were Albion College, which beat
(. Michigan. State; the College of Emporia
and this Kansas font of foot ball players
was not scored upon; West Chester
Teachers College, Pennsylvania
school; Winona Teachers College, q
Minnesota institution; University of De-
troit, which trimmed the Georgetown
eleven that had beaten West Virginia
and New York University, and Georgia
Tech, which beat Tulane. Notre Dame,