Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-10-15 | Page 10 | Gridiron Game in American Service Camps to Eclipse College Variety

GRIDIRON GAME IN AMERICAN SERVICE CAMPS TO ECLIPSE C0LLEGEVAR1ETY Great Collegiate Sport Feel- ing Teeth of War Just as Baseball Felt It During the Months of Summer WIIAT about football t America's great college game U feeling tha teeth of war jut aa baaeball felt it during the au miner. Football, of course, -will not be 'stopped, but football as football waa known before the war haa paaaed until ths nation jn on a peace footing. No mora expensive training tables. No more hour of preel Ice la t he coltegss. No more highly paid, highly specialised and highly trained coaching depart mentg. The colleges have gone on a war heats. Football teame ars permitted encouraged. encour-aged. In fart but with the atudlea which must be kept up aa they never hava been kept up before; with ths hours of military mili-tary duty, the practice sessions are reduced re-duced to a minimum. An hour a day Is about aU ths roaches may expect Th Wng Intersection! Junkets of the teams have been cut out. Moat teama wilt be allowed to make one long trip away from home. Aa a generaT rule frMftball men will not be allowed mors than twenty-four hours away from their college.. This means that the big ten, tha Mleeourt valley, the Hmjthern and m t eouic co si cnsmpionsnips win not be decided this year. In the Kaet a numlwr of the large ootlegeo have a4as-doned a4as-doned football for the period of the war. Tha beet football of the year will be played by army and navy tew ma, Already Al-ready some of these teams have shown remarkahl possibilities. The oommiaeion on training camp a-tivltlee a-tivltlee has seen to It that every camp has a competent coach. Comparatively lone? practice periods are allowed. There will be some mighty good football foot-ball In America this fall, but most of It w-jejjyedhvrnenlntitHfor