Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1910 — FOOTBALL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOOTBALL

Heine Schoelkoft is assisting in coaching the Cornell varsity back field. By the way, is there any diminution in the number of flying tackles used? The loss of Earl Pickering is causing considerable worry in the Gopher camp. Officials appear to be slower than coaches and ''players in grasping the new rules. Captain Dean Is playing at quarter for the Badgers and is infusing new life into the team. Isn’t it lucky there’s no such thing as a national commission for football? But then there is the rules committee. Some day when we have lots of time and space we will try to compare football teams by scores; not until then. Football players complain of their troubles with the new rules. Still they don’t have to read explanations of them in the papers. . In view of this season’s happenings, it doesn’t seem as if it were all Fred Speik’s fault that Purdue did not have a winning team last year. Michigan football players are said to mar their fast team work by wrangling over the plays to be used. Too many orators, says Yost The new football rules don’t seem to* have 'affected the length and breadth of tild list of killed and injured to any great extent. Deming and Vansinderen, two of Yale’s first string of backs, have been dropped back to the scrubs on account of their poor performances. A former football coach says ttfe game will never be/a success until the rules of the American college and English Rugby games are combined. Football experts the west over are agreed that the fault of the Maroon team lies in the forwards. The linemen are said to be exceptionally weak. Comparison of baseball and football ticket scalping doesn’t look so bad for the diamond game when It is learned that a ticket to the Yale-Har-vard game sold for SSO. It used to be quite the thing to wager a team would not score, but with the forward pass and the rest of the open game the man who makes such a bet now Is regarded as a sucker. An eminent statistician asserts that 99 per cent, of the injuries suffered in football this yeaer are confined to the arms and legs of players, one per cent, being of a serious and lasting nature. Any time that the University of Chicago students get the blues by watching the work of their football warriors they might turn to the cables which tell how the baseball nine is winning in the Orient.