| Show TilE THE FOOTBALL SEASON Se Baltimore American The rime first football football foot toot ball incident of or note noto pertaining to th the tho present autumn consists of ot the tho death of ot a student from Injuries received i ia In Ina ina a football scrimmage at ono of ot th the preparatory schools In New York state The Ti-mo football season has hns scarcely scar car eel cely opened tho the game can hard haidl I b be said as yet to have got into swing But the lie fatality that none of the lie ferocious that distinguishes tho the American game gam and anti renders It pretty nearly as thrillIng thrilling thrill thrill- Ing to the as a tight fight between two squads squalls of wild Indians would be beIs beIs beis Is to be left out this year There mere is islo isto isto to lo bo the same twisting spine nose- nose smashing smashing- breaking bone enthusiasm put Into the sport this season as animated nfl ani mated the thc games of ot last year If football aJl Is to be In Into Into Into In- In to a contest where Intellect plays a amore amore more move determining role in deciding re results results re- re suIts than brawn It Is evident that lint more than ono one year or even two willbe will wll be requisite to the working out of or the tIme evolutionary result At the conclusion conclusion sion of ot the football season of 1905 some of oC the residents of prominent colleges endeavored to lo agree asree upon certain certain tain taimi conditions that be Imp Imposed upon the time football organizations of ot the time Institutions over which they preside There was much diversity of or opinion concerning concerning- what should he be done to so modify the lie game as to eliminate danger dan dan- gem ger and a majority of the college presidents declined to discuss s tho the topic at all aJi It II is a question whether football can bo be modified elther by action from Crom above or 01 below that below that Is from a a. determination deter deter- either cither by the faculties or 01 by hy bythe hythe the he students that it IL shall bo be made malIc harmless It Is doubtful whether It would thereby be bo rendered gentle gentle- Football can eun bo he abolished med as a college sport but there thero are arc fundamental r rca rea- a- a soils ons for tor or questioning tho the theor theory that It t can CLI have havo all tho the dangerous sh stran- stran n- n sifted out of at It H arid and yet ct survive When the faculties and students agree ree I that hat it shall hall be changed into a pastime pas- pas time iline with not sprinkle of ot roughness lii In n it it the tho game same will be doomed for admiring thousands will never neVel pack the benches of ot the college arenas to watch the time progress of or a tame walk walk- around The brutality of ot football however should not bo be tolerated |
