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Show BIG SCHOOLS AGREE TO NUMBER PLAYERS Nearly All Coaches Favor Plan of Giving "Spectator a Chance." By FRANK MENKE. NEW YORK, Sept. ti. TV'ith the opening open-ing of the !!iH fooUxill season Iho enthusiasts en-thusiasts arc asking: "Will Die players he numbered this year'.'" ; And the answer i? MnU most of tl.e , larger colleges in the eountry will nam- ' ber tlifir pUiyei-.- from the outset of the Beaton, nn.l Lltii t every other big college vill full ui line hefor.; the season is over. Some weeks o.i;o the writer sent letters let-ters to tin' coaches of about fifty of the largest colleges in tiie country, asUing them if they would number tlieir players play-ers and requesting lhu.e opposed to the plan to state llieir reasons. Up to iho present writing replies have . been received from thirty-four coaches 4 or. athletic directors. These thirty-four replies show that twenty of the biggest colleges will number their' players from the beginning of the season, four probably prob-ably will adopt the plan for the big pames. four ''will number their players at any time upon request, and only three are directly opposed to the plan. Frank Hinliey. the Vale coach, said the question ques-tion had not been taken up at Yale and he, therefore, could not make a definite answer at this time. Will Number Players. These colleges -will number their play-era play-era from the start of the season: Princeton. Prince-ton. Syracuse, Pittsburg, Lehigh, Notre 3-iame. Chicago, Illinois. Iowa, Korth-i Korth-i cstern, Ohio State, Purdue, Indiana, Minnesota. Wisconsin. Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Dart-mouth, Washington and Jefferson. Rochester, Ro-chester, Pennsylvania State, Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia (early games at least). Williams (early games at least). These will number tlieir players at any time upon request: Carlisle, Lafavette, Mississippi, Tennessee. The coaches of these colleges are considering con-sidering the plan and have stated that ns the season advances they probably wdi adopt the plan: Colgate, Missouri, Kentucky. 1 The coaches of these colleges are firmly firm-ly opposed to the plan: North Carolina, Nebraska. Montana. Pitt Likes Plan. The University of Pittsburg was one of the- pioneers in the adoption of tile numbering num-bering p'.un. and the letter that came from K. E. Davis, graduate manager, ; that explains the result of six years' ex-, ex-, periment -with the .scheme, is highly in-' in-' foresting. Tiie letter follows, in part: ! " The custom of numbering plavers has i j c-en in voaue at the University of Pitts- I uurj tor tne past six years. In fact. I ; behove it was our school that first at-i at-i tranter! the attention of the larger , schools to the plan. When we plaved at Cornell last year there was considerable -.avorable comment as the spectators noticed no-ticed the numbers on the plavers' back- , and. through the medium o'f the pro-; pro-; grammes, were able to identify our plavers, plav-ers, who. otherwise, would have been absolute ab-solute strangers to them. Several yjars ago Glen Warner 'of . i-arnsie refused to number the Indians when they played here. The scheme was lather new at the time and he feared that the numbers would enable our men to distinguish his best men and make them the object of attack. We convinced him that this feature wasn't to be considered. con-sidered. All the. teams we played last year wore numbers wifh the exception of Lafayette. They were the one team that refused to; wear numbers. "HT, ble K'lms with Pennsylvania : and Washington and Jefferson, where we drew about 25,000 persons, players ol Both sides are numbered, and I believe the spectators would, raise, an awful howl , u it was otherwise." Cavis stated that sometimes the num. f,!r.H0rV 6 h,acks of the men become Mured by mud. or are torn off during j.ne game, but adds: "By the time that happens the spectators have had a knowethJde'nif; the p!ayers and "ev out o ' S llat the schome work's I ,'3lon Earner, who, as Davis states : Indians in Line. "The Indians will be perfect;- willing ,'L7't'ar numb "his fall whenever j mere is a reouest for this innovation I I sec "lMly no objection now to , t.ie mayors wearing the number runt t the bother of fastening them on." I ' ,. ' "e,"i ?ract from a letter that came to us from Wilmer G. Crowed 1 Se ,', ,U'l 'j'3"1'0 learn-one of t ycarT at asainst ,he P'an "The system of' numbering pias-er,-,- j. ! hh- I ii;!!1? officials feel that it Isn't rif.ess.irv to number tiieir plavers in th i ;rr T-r-,mw t i.e ri ine.--Pf''-alors are familiar with tne pU.-.ers , one way or another Here are extracts from the ,.iif.r.. ,,f rorne of the college .H,'1;,S wl n, '?r l'''"" " v.l,c,hr.r or no., their wijm would r.c n.iml.erl this vear xr.rrz" ' '? ,lh"s ,a,L 11 a good plan. II -'O the SerHorS ;, r,d .,s ,it m,.t handle,,,, ,., ,hn p;:,yr.,..-.,,.s,.r ,. llx rji-i . Noire Ij;,me. ' rhtoi, ..,.. will ,r ,n(M. ar as ,1 Irf,hlsl) ,.,)S ;e ol t,,,. ,s, ..,.. ,0 llo 1 l,!n- 11 1 I'I'iv.ti su-.efi,! j,, r.- wmv1v':" K' "' Wi,,'--r i-phit-h uni- ".-'ynniy. ni number her nti,,., ' ' Ni. S;-ri,.,,,c ninvcrnly " Big Xine Numbers. 'rb':- ii'f!-v1''.-';'.',;"i,,','i '..''r. H Al,j,''.'"ic o ib- pi.ui. ,.W!1,- ii win ;,mrV lain r' I d.i ,,ol ;.g...,. v. ill, II, i. niismuil. A. II. I:crn,i. 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