Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1910 — Numbers on Football Players. [ARTICLE]

Numbers on Football Players.

That football players should 'oe numbered as are track athletes is the belief of many Michigan university athletic authorities. An agitation was begun the other day to place numbers on the players as they take part in a regular contest and print the numbers with the players’ names in the program. : - ■ . By this means it would be possible for the spectators to identify individual players and keep track of the numerous substitutions made possible by the new rules. The scheme has been used at Ohio State tor several year* with marked success.