New Britain herald., 1929-12-17
By JIGGEI}

l. -c iODt bIll player, NNN Has tOlit q litrIe coaching, and sports writers Is but reelection Of blazo that has flal-d up over the country a9 an aftermath Of tho past football set soI.
 l. is mildly epidemic at prescp-. Coach William N. Keeper display .d symptoms Of inc fever ut jl.n rrinc"- ton football dinner, Sa.d hc, If football is gong 10 hc killed. it Is going to bc killed by publicity
 As Princeton had just pass.l through the worst football season in ils history. Coach Roper could hard r. be expected 10 hr very chocrtgl on this occasion. However, he laiI- ed to announce his own withdrawal rom the sports page as a contributor to its column.
 Hearing coaches hcrGo @por-s writers, one would a=sumc that tha present high perssurH publicity for football stars was I now evil that lad appeared in inc rast few years. College football has de\rIopcd along many different lines since Princeton and Rutgers played the first inter- collegiate game in this country, In IS69.
 The sporting page uas not un- heard of in England a decade before football came 10 America. By the middle of the '9os, both college foot han and sports writers had come into their own here.
 If publicity could have killed foot ball. the game should have turned up it's toes in 1895 when William Randolph Hearst bought the New York Journal and WhOoped up sport ing events, not cnly on one page bui or several. Two and onc-half pages were devoted 10 the Yale-PrincetoH football game of that fall. with sketches and diagrams interspersed with the reading matter. Richa1 ] Harding Davis, HeffcIingcr Jim Cor bctt and Captain Throne "covcre1'' the game for the Journal.
 "Ghost writing" was developed and Corbett and l'itzsimmous were paid S5.0Ou a year for their sigma lures over articles on sports, which were pounded out by unknown writ CTS. All tho features which make tho sporting page characteristic were produced, not only by the Journa but also by it's contemporaries, tn, Sun. the World and the Herald.
 Even the SOD sister was taken oil her regular beat and sent 10 NaA Haven to write up the boys n hluo" as they prac)iccd 10 beat Harvard and Princeton on the grid iron. Believe if or not. footbri players of that day saw cnou sj -'slush" in print about their deod. to turn their heads ir they got th2' way by publicity. And they w"r, nann&d just as hard tor their error: as players are today.
 Still football has survived an, even thrivod- The Glasses Of yes tcrday reached gridiron fame an roaped a harvest of publicity, just d the Caglcs of today do, Withou apparent harm to their bushes careers. Coaches did rot reccir the attention accorded them no but once thc spotlight was turnc' in theIr direction, they appear f. feel that the right is theirs 10 oc cupy the center of inc stage an dictate as 10 lie color of the ligh which shall shine upon them an thelr charges.
 That a=tutc sports writer. Joh Tunis. started tho noise whi, coaches and alumni construed IS d attack on college football W, ( McGryhan added 10 the din whi" became 8 racket with the pubIica lion of the CHucgic FounGatjo r,port At of which will haven rorcoptibje effect on urEt season football. N ~3 bn tagrd on n even @rundar sra5- Tho public w, pack tn" Bowl a' Uyn dollars D. apons writers ~In plr: now hero, and coarhes NiU ha happy if lhc proluc" winning .r1,ns.
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