Show eon THURSDAY will doubtless be the greatest football day of the season Certainly we can expect to see the best playing that has ever yet been given on our campus The game between the Junior team and the High School boys will probably be a bright interesting little affair and that t between the Senior eleven and Crescents Crescen ts is looked forward to as the star game of the season We commend the Athletic Association for fort forthe forthe t the e orderly way in which the crowd w was s handled and kept off at the last game By such management only can the patronage of the respectable element be b secured sec red The players should also be commended for fox the the clean game they played with the Provo Pro o team te m though commendation cO nm is i isu is- is u scarcely necessary necessary for m men n because tl they y act like gentlemen It would certainly be a sorry state if they did not play fairly Foot-ball Foot p properly played is a wonderful wonder wonder- ful game It t requires careful training i and consequently str strengthens the players It teaches them alertness and makes ir f them able to stand a few hard knocks knock like men and almost more important than anything else it requires tl that at the players obey and act When however the invigorating sport degenerates degenerates degenerates degen degen- hc- hc and becomes merely a determined u iS struggle to to win regardless of the injuries inJuries ies done and the fraud resorted to then foot-ball foot should be prohibited not only Y f by educational institutions but by the arm of the law itself Such playing disgusts disgusts dis dis- gusts men like Charles Eliot Norton i r and nd it disgusts any rational person to see seea a condition where the men are wrought up t V to such a pitch that they recklessly break f lim limbs bs or maim their opponents for life merely to get possession of the ball Nothing of this kind has ever existed here and to prevent it every player should require of himself that he be scrupulously fair Players and spectators spectators spectators spec spec- should cry down the least sign of r. r brutality and fraud for only thus can we keep the game a worthy one for in inI intelligent intelligent in- in young men to engage in andI and I truly in spirit with educational athletics I |