| Show COLLEGE SPORT I ALWAYS POPULAR Many Reasons Given Why I English Games Do Not Take in America Four kinds of oC football are played In the thel th f l ed d States College football Gaelic socker or association football Rugby or English football are the ones which en engage engage gage the attention of or Americans To call collegeS college football Rugby Is a misnomer Rugby football is played pla ed in this coun COUO country try Itry at the Universities of California and Stanford It hears slight resemblance to ollege football Instead of ot putting the ball ban in play from fromIa Ia scrimmage the English players start off ott with a serum scrum Locking Lacking their feet fet together and whirling around like flying dervishes they the heel the ball out from a hollow circle Socker football and Irish Gaelic foot football football ball bull are closely close allied In these games the players pla e can use une their feet only Advancing the ball with the I hands Is foul fotti In some of or the western states where a game jame of or Rugby has nab never been played writers and spectators confound Amerl Ameri can Ican football with the English college game gameOn gameOn On Soldier field Cambridge Mass tass I 1 saw aW a game of or Rugby President Eliot af lf Harvard was one of ot the spectators Among the American sportsmen present t tt t aroused little Interest It H is 1 5 neither n ther spectacular nor thrilling H College football Is the only fall fan game i which is Intense and exciting enough to uit the American people i Neither cricket nor Rugby will ill ev ever r ba be beI b I popular on OH this side of the big pond In their temperamental I Americans differ from the British Cricket and Rugby are too slow 10 Americans want more ent more I I II 1 I Broken bones and bloody blond noses are only interesting bits of oC byplay I Its no fun for n 11 i American to see lie sonie s mf I I ie ne boot a ball Ut with his hl foot Its 00 no tame a sport I Sons of at Sam like tho the personal the bitter struggle That accounts for tor the popularity of ot fighting college football Is one an of ot the most mOlt ing ng and exciting of or sports sport It has baa all the elements of or a great reat sport aport I an a autumn sport which will vUi hold the m an merest mer erest er st of or Americans forever America does dos not have to import any an tames ames from England why wh football and baseball are ara so r They The are American through and hM 1 ail was originated In this country I College Cc football was evolved from Crom old J English football It bears eo IO little resemblance to the British Rugby that the parent recognize its child Good Go d old American games gaines are good goodnough goodnough nough for us We e can do without crick t and d Rugby Rub They Timy may tony please English Tien en but they don t t please u Its because In our nor sporting proclivities e are quite Quit unlike the peoples of aC the Id world Baseball and college football will always e the favorite lath fall and summer bummer sports portH Because cause Americans originated them then per pep f them and them jI |
