Show What's This On Chicago Field By GRAHAM HOVEY International News Service Sports Writer I CHICAGO Nov 11 INS INS It It may surprise many football fans to learn that would-be would backs cavort from the T formation shift into Notre style Dame-style boxes and chant Minnesota's Hike two one-two two one at Stagg field on the University of Chicago midway these crisp autumn afternoons Punts still soar tackles and blocks still resound against the gray majestic stands where enthusiastic rooters once waved the flag for old Chicago Dont Don't draw a hasty conclusion The football is the six-man six team variety played by five squads operating operating operating op op- in an league The he program represents the earnest earnest earnest earn earn- est effort of the University of Chicago's capable athletic department department department depart depart- ment to make the best of the situation situation situation sit sit- in which it found itself on that memorable day when trustees of bf the institution abolished intercollegiate intercollegiate intercollegiate inter inter- collegiate football two years ago The odd 60 boys participating in inthe inthe inthe the program seem highly Wearing standard football equipment they shift with the pomp of the Four Horsemen They slap each other on the back and yell Tell encouragement try to diagnose diagnose nose the opposing sextets sextet's plays and tip teammates off accordingly On the sidelines substitutes and anda a handful of spectators cut loose With occasional impromptu cheers The big concrete stands are I empty I It was a radical step Chicago took in abandoning football football football-an an unexpected step which shocked the athletic world How has the move worked out Any attempt to answer that tha question completely and impartially impartial impartial- ly must be postponed for years Even then it will be difficult to keep prejudice out of the audit President R Rob Robert o b e r t Maynard Hutchins and his followers probably probably probably ably have been convinced since the day football was abandoned that the act removed a real menace menace menace men men- ace to the university's best inter inter- ests Rabid football supporters among Chicago alumni groups probably were just as convinced that the university was taking a astep astep astep step which might help to make it ita ita ita a second-rate second institution Neither group is capable of making an objective decision on the issue But on behalf of Athletic DIrector Director Director Di Di- rector T. T Nelson M Metcalf and his staff let it be said that they are giving their best to make Chicago's Chicago's Chicago's Chi Chi- cagos cago's noble experiment work |