Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-22 | Page 39 | Big Colleges Make Ready for Football

BIG COLLEGES MAKE READY FOhVFOOTBAa Old-Time Methods of Han-! Han-! dling Teams Will Be in Vogue This Year. By JACK VEIOCK. XEW YORK, Sept. 21. King football foot-ball is riot going to be pushed into the discard just yet. The major colleges and universities throughout the country are making ready for the 1918 football season. Plans for playing schedules made during dur-ing the winter months are being carried out as usual, and by the middle of September Sep-tember the thud of booted toes against the pigskin will be heard on college gridirons as of yore. .Just "what football will amount to this fall remains a puzzle. Scarcely any of the major schools are certain as to what sort of material will be available by the time the training season arrives. The attitude of the big three in the east Harvard. Yale and Princeton indicates in-dicates that all three will return to the old-time method of handling teams in so far as it is possible. "Informal football," -which came in for a panning last fall, will be forgotten. The effect of any course adopted by the big three in the cast is obvious. If they go in for football as a wartime sport and boost the game as far as they can, the effect will be stimulating in the east, and will have its influence elsewhere. Tn other sections of the country football will be practically the same as in past years. The fact that practically every football foot-ball player who ranked as a star within the past three or four years will be out of the game this fall should make but little difference. The average football player will be younger than in other and better days" of the gridiron sport, but there is that dash and determination determina-tion about j'oung blood which cannot be denied, and if the youngsters are given their chance they will keep the sport very much alive.