Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1924-01-18 | Page 1 | Coach Keene Fitzpatrick Lauds Modern Football

j Coach Keene Fitzpatrick j Lauds Modern Football 1 Keene Fitzpatrick, the trainer of , frinceton .athletes, says that the aerial football game that is being played i now has dojie more to make the sport ! develop as it has than any other sin- ' gle factor. ' "A Yale-Princeton game today in my ! mind far surpasses the exhibitions in the days when tiuge tallyhos, drawn up ' behind the ropes, served as stands In the old Manhattan park at New York, where the Tiger and the Bulldog used to meet," said Fitzpatrick. He is of the opinion that punting and passing not only have given the players themselves them-selves a much better opportunity to make use of individual ability, but that from the view of the spectator, the interest in-terest in the game ias improved vastly. In concluding, Fitzpatrick said: "Without a doubt, football Is the na tional college sport of today. One of the main reasons why it has grown to be this is because It I so distinctly amateur." . I