Show FOOT FOOTBALL BALLIS IS POPULAR GAME largest crowd of persons persona ever congregated gre gated in this country witness recent harvard yale contest if there aro are any left who harbor the idea that football la is not a popular game or that it has baa no drawing powers commensurate commens urata with baseball they can disabuse their minds very readily by referring to an account of uto uio yale Il harvard arvard game which was vaa witnessed by about seventy thousand persons it Is said that this la Is the largest crowd of persons persona that ever congregated in this country to witness a single contest of any kind and I 1 can readily believe it says saya a 1 writer in the milwaukee sentinel tho the fact t that this number of people are able and willing to pay a large sum for the privilege of seeing a football game la Is good evidence that the game has something buck back of it it Is noteworthy and quite commend able that this game Is 13 still amateur that tho the professionals havo have not gotton gotten hold of it and control it I 1 think the fact that it Is an amateur game alj ail that those who play it represent a high class of young citizenship aro are large elements in its popularity certain it la Is that professional football would not awaken anywhere near tho the interest that tho the ganie game does as at present constituted |