Show Colle college b cre footma football Fool balL il r with all the talk against it from the press and pulpit football seems to have come to stay As commonly played it is a brutal game and no wonder humanitarians are arc opposed to it but it is the most popular of all ganies games among college boys and instead of decrying t their heir desired fun a 1 better way is perhaps to seek to improve it almost every form of athletic sport can be made brutal but it is supposed the players can be trained to avoid brutality in large degree till all kinds of fun A good deal has been said about reform in the rules of the game says the chicago inter ocean and there is some room for it but the main thing is for the players to play ball and not degenerate into thugs manya many a game lias has been lost by the players losing their heads indeed there is no other athletic sport which has so great liability to a frenzy of excite ment the secret of success is more in keeping beeping Ie cool at the top than in being in fleet at the bottom it is after all more a head bead ball game than a football game at every moment the line of battle changes and there is is a change required in the tactics employed the team which is under the absolute control of a captain who knows his business and does not get himself rattled has a very great advantage over one which is all fevered up with an excitement which expels reason from its throne each man in a team has a strong point that is why he is in it at alland if only y he can be kept down to his legitimate 0 I 1 place he is effective but the wild playing begins there is is a general displacement and misfit the excitement which fritters away the strength of the team is also responsible for the greater Z reater part of the brutality it is only reasonable to expect that time will tend to lessen but not entirely cure the evils incident to this a athletic 1 pastime the last game between the two great universities yale and princeton was probably one of the best games of the kind ever played it tas a marvel of skill coolness and str avi ai hut but it was also remark remarkable able for theoe of brutality our athletic young men are not barbarians ba rians but they are not accustomed i to that perfect cyclone of enthus enthusiasm easm I 1 which comes in the natural course of the game gaine and which must be resisted by holding a tight grip upon the head |