The Indianapolis times., 1930-10-28
TALKING
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BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, oct. 2S.-The bis
IN tering boo and the sibilant hiss
have found their withering way
into the fine old game Of college
football. at two different games
in the eastern sector the past week
end indignant tonsils we're lifted in
condemnation Of what appeared to
partisan eyes to be unmanly man
euvers on the field of play. TWO
players we're badly hurt in mass at
tacks-Booth Of Yale and Murphy
Of Fordham-and both had to be
carried of the field on stretchers
and later rushed to hospitals for
examinations. Fortunately, it de-
veloped neither was critically in
Jured.
Both smash-ups were the outgrowth Of
pass plays. Booth was struck by three
Army tacklers after intercepting Soldier
pass. and hit so hard he war promptly
rendered null and void. which was a blow
to Yale since the little giant had Just got
into the game. NOnpartisans who wit
messed the incident tell me that there was
no dirty work at the cross roads on the
part Of the Cadets; they simply tore into
the midget with their customary zeal and
earnestness. making no allowances for the
fact that he Is no bigger than a pin
cushion.
There always win be the aspects Of un-
fairness about such a situation on the
football field. but that is hardly sufficient
Justification for the misdirected boos and
hsses which inevitably follow. There Is
nothing In the rules which makes 1t neces-
sarv for a 2e0-pound tackler TO take It
easy with an undersized ball toter. no mat
ter how brutal the act may look from the
stands.
FOOTBALL happens to be
4 rough, tough sort of dish; some
of the boys seem to be able to stand
a lot Of smacking around and some
of them don't. OF course there are
times when hard football degener-
ates into dirty football and when that
happens it ceases to be sport.
There were times in the Fordham-New
tween hard and dirty football was very
hard TO distinguish with the naked orbS.
The two home town teams meeting In their
first major struggle before nearly 90. 600
customers played with a savage despera-
tion, that took Just little Of the fun out
RaTe g seen the bows settle their Manhattan
feud with less personal violence.
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MURPHY was hurt after taking
IVA a pass from Bartos. From the
stand it looked as if he had been
tackled by everybody but the gate
keeper. 1t also was charged that
there was piling on after he was
down. From the press cells it was
hard to tell whether this was true.
At any rate the officials, with a
good view Of the play, saw nothing
on which to inflict penalty.
flock of Fordham substitutes rushed
out and carried their senseless mate off
the field and as they did so the Fordbam
stands rose and beloved in anger. For
n moment thought the Yankees were
playing the AS and that umpire MCGOWAN
orr BforIarty had booted one in a pinch.
This sort of noise carries a familiar and
engaging note in a ball yard where the
customer feels his ticket entities him to
the privilege TO speak his mind. II any.
at any time he feels that justice has been
miscsrried, fouIed or spurned.
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It may be that the college, football Gus
tcmer is beginning to feel the same way
and that in the future the boo and the
hiss will be employed with great regularity
and enthusiasm In the bowls and the
horseshoes of the land. Manifestly it is
asking a great deal of a partisan old grad
to st in dlgnifled silence while what he
thinks is an outrage against common hon
Jesty and decencv is being enacted under
his frozen nose.
NF course, it would be decidedly
" unfortunate if the cheer lead
ers of the teams ever went in for
anything of this sort. Calling on
the home stands for nine rousing
boos and a locomotive hiss for the
visitors hardly would be accepted as
in keeping with the exalted tradi-
tons of the sport. But you never
can tell. The boys who were up to
New Haven Saturday tell me they
never heard finer or more expert
booir7cr anvwhera in their lives