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Show llTODAY'S SPORTi ANGLE 4 I The Washington and Jcf ferson -California game Is over, ami Coach Neale's eleven has proved that all the supermen In football are not on the I'arlfic coast- The game has also demonstrated that W. & J. has a better team than mo6t of the critics gave It credit for, or else California wasn't as strong as tho advance notices made us believe. be-lieve. Washington and Jefferson was rob-bed rob-bed of a victory because of on of ' the toughest breaks a footbSll loam j could possibly get. the calling of an j offside play, as a touchdown Is scored. Shortlv after llie pimn lin.1 Ktnr'eii i Halfback Bennett ran 4U yards for u tourhdown. Tho scoro was not allowed al-lowed because one of the officials ruled a W. & J. player was offside. That seore would have given the ras. ern eleven victory, had it been allowed. al-lowed. All of which brings up to the real reason for this story. Tho life of a ollege football Offll la Is no longer a soft Job, Once upon a time the colleges col-leges accepted the rulings of the officials offi-cials without comment. Those aere tho happy days for tho officials but they no longer exist Offside and holding plays are a question of Judgment purely. They ire similar to the ball and strike, or Ihe out and safe decisions of the baseball umpire. The baseball official reaches a decision and gives it. Often he Is the only person In the ball park who takes that view. Often one Important ruling gets a football official In bad, A ruling similar sim-ilar to the one that kept W. At J. fronl defeating California has canned many an excellent official to be scratched by tho college so penalised. Last fall I saw a famous eastern official render such 0 ruling. I talked to him in his dressing room after the game. The first thing he said to "That turned out to be a tough ruling when I called that player for holding. It was the worst bit of holding I have seen in many a game. Since It kept one of tho tennis from winning ihe game, that college will have no other use for me for a couple cou-ple of years." Football officials are agreed upon usually by the contending teams. A ruling that beats a college out of an important game is certain to eliminate elim-inate that official from working for that particular college for years. This fact was brought out at the recent meeting of college football officials of-ficials in New York. E K Hall, chairman of the Intercollegiate football foot-ball rules committee, made the following fol-lowing sensational statement Football officials are Intimidated! by certain colleges 'and led to shut j their eyes to Infractions of the rules because they are warned that infliction inflic-tion of penalties would cause them to bo barred from games played in by these institutions." If tho spirit of sportsmanship is dvlng out In the colleges I iroedsi where one is going to kok for It B. E. |