Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1925-01-26 | Page 7 | Sees Football, As National Game

SEES FOOTBALL ASI AS j I NATIONAL GAME I CHICAGO Jan Ja 26 is destined to 10 become the American Amerlan sport and In the future Ir if are built to 10 accommodate modale them crowds of oC 12 or more may be found watching th grid game Major John L commissIon of ot the IheI I Western conference bell believes I Th The greatest single draIng draw dra Ing at- at atI at attraction traction In sports amateur or pro pro- pro 11 had ad been a worlds orld s I championship prize fight tight with ith th hEa title In view Major Griffith I suppose 90 90 la is the correct estimate of oC oCI I I the he greatest crowd rod d the boxers boers have er e drawn Tho The Stanford California game I I on the Pacific coast this thle year that by several se oral thousand I I And UI th the return of oC the AmerIcan Intercollegiate football code to Stanford blanford and California has been comparatively recent I In toot football ball now elend I beyond the college their and alumni Major 1 Griffith de cia cia- de I elated h has come with the thede of ot Individual stars Mare or the Big DIg Ten ren en com corn commissioner missioner believes i IB Is experiencing a t slump Klump In popularity In colleges and has been abandoned bv by one Ie conference the est estIn I In the new popularity of ot football foot foot- ball bait and the Inter Inter- Inter Inter-I I eec aroused Major Griffith sees Bees a of oC the game gamo and andI the passing of ot the called so-called east east em ern game ganie or western esterl esterr game east 1 I At present preB nt lIe he believes t the mid midwest midwest west ii I Is producing the best brand ot of football 1