Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-21 | Page 12 | Would Play Spring Football in Denver

WOULD PLAY SPRIG FOOTMUJ DENVER High School Stars WilJing to Put in Extra Time Needed to Train. DENVER, Dec. 20. Tlie football season sea-son of ims, short and unsatisfactory, with no result so far as selection of championships champion-ships is concerned, is a lively topic for discussion among both players and laymen, lay-men, says the Rocky Mountain News. The colleges of the state tried to prolong the season, in order that all the elevens in the conference might battle to a conclusion, conclu-sion, but this ended early. The authorities of tho universities and colleges have consistently discouraged any games after the end of ihe regular season. sea-son. Movo than that, they havu moved up the close, in nearly nil parts of tlie country, from Thanksgiving day to the fcaturday preceding. Une of (he arguments against lengthening lengthen-ing a season on any pretext has been that it would seem to give a tinge of professionalism pro-fessionalism to the sport. Another is that men should not be kept in training loo long. Overtraining is. found to have ruined the stamina and strength of more men than good training has put in good physical condition. The college boys are not inclined to prolong pro-long -the time that they shall keep in trim for athletics and away .from the social so-cial features of their schools. And too much athletics interferes with studios. Athletics Is really a part of the training train-ing of youth, and if permitted to take up more than its allotted share of time becomes be-comes a detriment. The season in the Denver high School football league was even more abbreviated abbrevi-ated than that of the colleges. The board of education calicd off the schedule early in the autumn, and it was opened for only a day or two. The boys who played on the teams have taken up the matter of asking the authorities if the postponed games may not be played next spring. The matter has not yet taken on the dignity dig-nity of a movement, but is being discussed. dis-cussed. Questions have been put to some of those who would have the deciding of hte question, and these have not favored fa-vored it. The arguemnt for it is that the boys have been deprived of the full enjcTy-mcnt enjcTy-mcnt of the sport, and that they are willing will-ing to do the extra training that would be required, and to be careful not to interfere inter-fere with their work in the classrooms. The authorities are not likely to accede ac-cede to any such requests, largely because athletic programs are made -out for the year, and the prolonging of the season for any one -sport is likely to interfere with another that is scheduled.