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Show I; RECENT CONTESTS i 10WJSI1ISE1 j " Trustee Bangs of Columbia ! , Refers to Late College jl- Games. 'FOOTBALL PLAYERS HARSHLY HANDLED ! Suggests That Staff of Football j Policemen Be Largely in creased at Once. Tribune Special Sportinp Service. ' NEW YORK, Doc. S. Francis S.' Bangs, n member of ihc board of trustees trus-tees at Columbia, and cliairmnn of the committee on athletics, in n signed state, mcnt severely criticises the recent eon-tests eon-tests between Yale and Princeton, and ; Cornell and Princeton. , Stating that "in football the need of reformation lias bcrn three-fold: (I) in the rules of the game; (2) the con-i con-i duct of the players on the field; and j (3) ihp relation of the player to the 't . university. " Mr. Banns goes on to sav: "Tho revised rules liad have nenrly j one season of experiment with marked .' 1 success, but among those who arc still i infatuated with the old style of play- N ing thero is a strong ndvocacy of a re- ! turn to mass plays within tlio 25-yard a line. The rules are still on probation, . and it remains to he seen what, another session of the revisers will do. "In tho conduct of the players on the field there is plenty of room'for im-V im-V provement. In the Princeton-Cornell game recently played in this city, there B was just as much slugging as was ever .! seen in an oldsiyle game, but thero was only one penalty. What happened I in the Princcton-Wcst Point game is well known, and there were some things in the Princeton-Yale game that did not appear in the reports. Princeton practically prac-tically lost that game because it was jl caught holding in the lino and penal- I Ized for an offense much to be deplored I when detected, but n subject of much u quiet congratulation when, undetected, it succeeds. One of the results of the Princeton-Yale gamo has beeu a demand ' for more officials so that foul plaviug ' should be better detected and punished; j or, in other words, foul play is to be f stopped, not through the honor of thp S coaches and the players, but by inercas- i ing the staff of football police. H "On the relation of the player to tho ft' university nothing has been accomplish- Ill ed this year. We read in anticipation Rj , of the game with Cornell, the Penns.vl- (iTIih vania team has gone to Winslow Junc- tl 111 tion for a week: that in anticipation 'j II of the game with Princeton and after- y $fu ward, the Yale team took several da3s :j &v'j of recreation on the Hudson, and that ;f in anticipation of the name with Yale lg ff the Harvard team took a week near r New London. Are these players stu ff dents or gladiators paid for their sor- lv ii vices with special privileges? When the ryvl playing rules have been settled and ffin'j lootball plavers on the field can con- rl duct themselves like gallant gentlemen, j ji the vital point in which football needs V-I' attention will then remain that is, to ft! J reconcile it with (he academic, work Vj which the players should be doing in JJn their universities, and which anyone jjlj who knows the facts knows that they fH ore not doing nnd cannot do." |