| Show FOOTBALL in many quarters there is springing 0 up a strong sentiment against football and unless its devotees devise some means of making the game less brutal and dangerous appearances indicate that the days of the snort are numbered its friends laud the game as being of the greatest value in the culture of physical perfection and also attribute to it great moral qualities as a cultivator of good judgment alertness of mind generosity and general manliness its opponents claim that it is a promoter of brutality and cruelty the opposing ing teams line up and there is a grim determination to win at all hazards if there is a particularly strong man in the opposing team a united effort is made to disable him lie ile must a goal even if it is nee essary to mate make a united attack upon him and break his hie limbs or head every humane consideration va vanishes niebes in the desire dedire for victory compared with it prize fighting is a comparatively harmless diversion occasionally a a prize fighter is killed billed usually because his head cornea comes in violent contact with the floor seldom because of the force of a blow whenever a death occurs the news is heralded all over the world and press pulpit and public cry for the suppression of the prize ring but the game of football goes merrily on oil and its victims are numbered by the score the football season is till young but it bas baa already numbered ten victims killed outright and in the neighborhood of three hundred injured on the thirteenth of the present month yale yala and harvard met upon the ff gridiron the game gama was denounced by the looters and described by the newspapers as being corn com ively spiritless P till f fire lve of Harv ards and one of aal yal e 8 players were carried from the field disabled speaking of football james J corbett recently said 1 I have stood 1 iii I the tha grand stand at the polo grounds and seen men and women w who ho hold up their hands in horror at the mere mention of a prie fight al applaud plaud vigorously when a player of the side antagonistic to their sympathies was carried off the field crippled they thought that his loss would I 1 enable their favorite to win flip game the better the man and the more serious his injuries the louder they cheered there was I 1 no more sympathy for the anju injured r d 1 men in the hearts of those peo eie than there was in the hearts of ancient romans who watched the gladiatorial contests for the vic victims tinis torn to pieces by the wild beasts but these are the men who howl against boxing con contests the governors governo rs of veral several ei states I 1 t are working for the enact enactment men of a law prohibiting prohibit hg football the councils of several large cities are consider considering inZ the question and a number of societies s are agitating it in our own state the church board of education of the salt lake stake has adopted a resolution plo protesting testing against the playing 7 of the game by any students under their jurisdiction and this action is likely to be followed by the state board other organizations will take the matter up and unless the methods of the idame same are thoroll thoroughly bly reformed the tims time is near when it will be ba abolished by law |
