Show 4 C fl I. I T 4 I f E Jr ru It I j jd i J Q NOW NOW-is the time for all good men to forget about the N football season of 1919 All aboard for Basketball Basketball- ville an and the boys with the dimples on their knees i The Th greatest rea test open field runner of the 1919 season has been beeri Billy Carlisle the modern Jessie Jimmie They simply cant can't down that fellow That Colorado Aggie carburetor must have been choked with sobs after that turkey day game with the Tigers I Not even an alibi have we heard T Te e conference football season has been a hummer and one of the principal reasons for the popularity of the game is s the fact that football is no longer a thing in which supremacy can be decided long before the season starts Nowadays the little prep is likely to show up with a La team which knocks all the traditions of football to pieces Dieces It is usually a royal battle-royal in these days that makes the championship plays all alt the more enjoyable It has eec eec- certaInly certainly made for larger attendances and nd that always m means ns success to the game It Is good that the situation situation situation sit sit- Is just exactly as It is All An that we can say Bay at the present present pres pres- ent eat time is that football has hilS come cometo to be a wonderful sport It is too bad that the season is so limited A championship based on just a afew afew afew few games necessarily I is subject to more or less chance or the advantage advantage advantage tage of home grounds and a limIted limited lim lint number of ot contests do not show the ability of ah an an individual or a team In sports We Ve have had hada a splendid Illustration of this in our Rocky mountain conference The Colorado Aggles with the ad advantage advantage advantage ad- ad vantage of ot a lot of or home games trimmed everything in sight ex except except except ex- ex on one occasion when like Utah and the Utah Aggles It simply simply sim sim- simply ply found it necessary to leave home at least once and there take a beating Its It's too bad that there cannot be one or two more games to determine determine determine deter deter- mine the real Rocky mountain championship perhaps It Is well I. I that matters stand as they are There is so much that is problematical problematical and speculative about football that possibly this important import Import- ant feature of ot It may Just as well remain One of the ways of or de dev developing developing de- de v and retaining Interest in inthe inthe th the game is to make most of ot its features mysterious By golly If what Ban Johnson says Is true no wonder big league baseball 1 is queer The ruddy president of the American league declares over his signature that the board of or directors directors directors tors has no authority to take action over the presidents president's head meanIng mean- mean meanIng Ing lag himself and that the president president dent B. B Johnson is not responsible ble to tho the directors for any of or his acts In the performance of his duties as president If It this is so why a board of or di directors directors directors di- di rectors If It the American league is nothing short of an absolute monarchy monarchy monarchy mon mon- archy with Bancroft II H. Johnson as its head why cumber up the records with a lot of directors That league must be a funny outfit |