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Show SQCKER FOOTBALL IS LIKE OUGHT Slicll Is Opinion of Americans Yho Witness Play of the English Team. WILL NOT SUPPLANT AMERICAN FOOTBALL Introduction of Socker Will Cause Reforms in American Ameri-can Game. Trlhune Special Sporting Service. H PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 4 While the Pilgrims hnvo accomplished much on tliolr missionary Journey to tho heathen football lands, It doe not appear probable-that probable-that they have succeeded In entirely supplanting tho old football religion. It In probable that the English football gnmo will reach a far grenter popularity both ivith tho athletes themselves and those who like to watch athletics, but that it will ever supplant or even serious-ly serious-ly rival tho American game doejt not seem reasonable. Even with thu close mass plays, which now characterize the Amerl-can Amerl-can gamo and make It difficult to dlstln-gulsh dlstln-gulsh the Individual work of the players IM and pretty formations tho occasional runs and the hard diving tackle, appeal to tho spectators much more than the rather loose, open and Individual piny ..f tho Briton's gnmc. American Gnmo More Attractive. Even without being ablo to distinguish tho plays, the spectators dro able to wstch tho work of the teams In the American ganu- nrnl ou tell how they are making their gains after all. The man to man struggle, unci tho sight of eleven men worklns as nno In formation which may form in u mass and end in a mass, is more attractive to the strenti-bbbb strenti-bbbb ous American public, which likes con-tinual con-tinual excitement, than tho more open, cleaner and perhaps more skillful En-Kllsh En-Kllsh game. American football has a place of Its own which at present, at least, "any Other sport seems Incapable of filling. "Socker" football bears the same relations to It that cricket doe to base-ball, base-ball, and is scorns no more likely that the association game will take the place of American football than cricket has sup-planted sup-planted baseball. Will Reform American Code. The Introduction of the English game H may bring reforms In the American con- Itest and make it more of a sport than a battle for which the opposing force are drilled until It I hard to see tho pleasure I of the sport. "Socker" football will un- doubted I y make progress and become one of the regularly recoi;nlzeil American I games. As a substitute for American football, however, it seems unlikely that It will qualify |