Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 297, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1922 — Page 5

What College Football Owes To The Public Kew York. Dec. 19.—Chicago University students opposed the suggestion that a big stadium be built at the university to accommodate the crowds tl mt want to see inter-colleglate football in that city. The attitude 'was taken that present facilities were sufficient to accommodate the students of the university and that Chicago was not playing football for the public. parvard. Yale and Princeton retuse to place tickets on public sale for the • Big Three” games on the ground that the public is not entitled to see the games until the alumni has been taken oare off. Harvard, Yale and Princeton cannot be criticized as they are perfectly within their rights in maintaining that their own should be accommodated first and it is known that demands of their own alumni are far greater than the supply of tickets. % Chicago also may be right in considering that fodtball is not conducted there for the public although it may be taken by some as rather snobbish In ignoring the fact that’ the public is becoming vastly interested in football. Private and semi-private institutions have every right to make arbitrary measures for the regulation of their sports, but when public and government institutions assume ‘‘the public be damned" attitude, the public has a right to rise on its rears and paw the air. Distribution of the tickets for the recent Army-Navy game in Philadelphia reached almost the point of scandal that should receive some attention from Washington. West Point and Annapolis cannot take the stand that their annual football game is a private affair. They do not play at West Point and Annapolis, but make a play for public patronage by playing in the largest stadium available. In the new Pennsylvania stadium 1(1,000 mot% seats were available than were provided at the Polo grounds for the inter-service game last year and yet the tickets were scarcer than ever. Few except scalpers had tickets in Philadelphia. Where thousands of football fans were ready and willing to pay the face .value for the tickets, they had to go to bellhops, chauffeurs and newspaperboys for tickets and pay as much as sls to $25 for thorn. The point in question is—if all kinds of scalpers were able to get the tickets, why was the public not given the opportunity? Severq| prominent newspapers and news associations in New York and Philadelphia devoted to the game, wrote to West Point and An. apoli to buy tickets and they were not even given the courtesy of an answer. Editors who wanted to see the game had to go to scalpers and buy the tickets for outlandish prices. Yale, Harvard and Prince-on have a most effective way of checking the activities of scalpers. The athleti ■ offi- < ials of the “Big Thr- • " institutions known where every ticket goes. When tickets are found in the hands of scalpers, the numbers ay chi eked back, the original buyer is discovered and he goes on the black list for life. This is real distribution of tickets. If the Army and Navy officials really are opposed to working with scalpers.

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‘[’ey could find out who" allowed the xr::;* * •« ••• •«« nandz of speculators. " Pennsylvania University st .dents, »‘‘le petty politicians, or Army or Navy officers scalped tickets, the W. a <>in and Annapolis officials surdy «"»■■■ Job.rd.w.”'.* •lit to see their games, their amioTmn ? P hy “ contlnu “- tion ot their present policy. Vale lias \ Great Outlook For 1923 New York, Dec. 19,-Gloom tlmt settled over many a big campus when the final curtain dropped'on the 1922 football season is being tempered with! that old never to die hope-“We ll do better next year.” Many tine prospects sown like seeds this time last fall, blossomed a year later, only to wither and die in dis-1 appointment. Yale is the best example of that established legend of football—“ You never can tell.” Material left at Yale after the close of the 1921 season looked like the mak-‘ ings of one of the greatest teams ever turned out at New Haven and a pros-1 pective champion ot the east. Instead of living up to promise, the eleven of 1922 turned out to be one of the most, disappointing repre- I sentatives Eli has ever sent on thell gridiron. i Perhaps there was too much good | material. If that is the case, Yale must take heedvlest the same thing! happens next year. Only three regulars of the 1922 varsity squad will be lost by graduation! —Jordan, Cross and Cruikshank. ! Figuring on the basis that one real! star is enough for any backfield, Yale has enough star backs available for about nine teams. I Neidlingen O’Hearn, Mallory, Beckett. Bench, Neale, Kelly, Wight and' Scott will all be eligible for the next team, I The gods could ask for nothing more. i Harvard retains fourteen varsity! players but the Crimson loses heavily] by the graduation of Charley Buell and i George Owens. < Unddr a system which places the nt-' most importance upon the quarter-! back, the Harvard coaches will have a J job to find a general for the team to U measure up’to the great Buell. Lee | and Spaulding are the two candidates i and they both had some experience the J past season. ! Baeks of the ability of George Owens I spring up in cycles of about five years, j Dr. Billy Bull, one of the Yale coaches are scouts, ranked Owen as one of the I greatest back of all times. He said no player he had ever seen do everything as well as Owen. I Fitts, Chapin, Clark, Kuhnhardt, Hubbard and Coburn will also be lost for next year, so the Crimson prospects for 1923 are not over bright. I Harvard may be comforted, however, by many examples to prove that gloomy prospects are more to be desired that conditions which make it possible for players and students to I feel that they can't be beaten “next year." Princeton is a good illustration of I the undesirability of over-confidence. At the close of the 1920 season. Prince-1 ton had left a combination of stars that promised to develop into a won-) der team in 1921^ but it was a big dis-, appointment. '

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1922. IW

Last full I’rlnceton prospects for -a winning team this year were so slim ihat all the friends of the Tigers were wearing mourning for them. I rlnceton fooled everyone—and possibly themselves by coming through with the champion tnum-of the east. _l he I Igors still have a young team

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and if Bill Roper is üblu to keep them j from becoming too optimistic, the i Tigers of 1923 ought to be another, I great team, perhaps u greater. i *Wlth u buck field consisting of Bar-]' chet, Norris, McKea and Cullen avail- j able for next year, the Navy also is!l auro of another strong team, ji

Barchet la one of the best banks in the east, but he is only a little better than tile slim Norris youngster who in three years ought to develop i:.*o a wonder. West Point has “Bill" Wood ready for service against next year and that great back is a team almost in himself.

The Army loses some good lineman, but that should be no worry as long us conditions exist whereby it is possible to go out and convince great football players with two or three years experience somewhere that the Army Is a great life.

Normgley In New York White Plains, N. Y., Dec. 15.—Two young men obligingly stopped Mrs. Allen Tobey and offered to fix her car. After they had gone Mrs. Tobey discovered that her purse with SI,OOO was gone. too.