Ogden Sun | 1905-11-21 | Page 3 | No Use for Football

NO USE FOP FOOTBALL A professor is reminded of pigs rooting in mire san francisco cal nov 17 prof geo H howison of the department of philosophy of the state university has expressed before his class in ethics his condemnation of football in the following foli owing language the spectacle oi 22 men wallowing in the dirt of a football field inevitably suggests pigs rolling in mire while thousand ot persons root in grandstands abc the spectacle provided on the field we know what sort of animals roof piga root the pig idea la pretty fully carried out in the football frenzy it is all degrading disheartening it beems to represent the supremacy of dirt and interest in brute force and animalism rampant people pay to see the exhibition and perchance lose one of the pigs then it is called loyalty to college and an of college sport we are supposed as university men to stand for scholarship and mental effort but when the rooting ia all tor a pig lie exhibition provided by men wallowing in the dirt our ideals beem to have sadly de generated