Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — FOOTBALL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOOTBALL

The gridiron is about the hottest place these frosty days. The small universities are coming to the front, at least under the new football rules. Michigan disposed of its most formidable rival in Notre Dame without a single injury. Under the new rules it has become an important factor to have the ends big, powerful men. Qualification for entrance to some of the big universities seems to be a diploma from a prairie football coach. How about an official announcer for football games? We need it to tell us about all substitutions and penalties. Coach Stagg of the Maroons football squad is optimistic, it is said. VV hen the Maroons win Stagg is a pessimist. If a college football player escapes the fierce scrimmage of team practise with the freshmen without injury he is lucky. It is the ambition of every freshman to butt the regulars clear off the field. . ’ Gilchrist, who played with Missouri against Kansas last year is playing an end on the navy team at Annapolis. Gilchrist has started in each game to date and is considered one of the hardest players in the academy. The new football rules are to remain intact, according to the reports from Boston, because the list of killed and injured has been reduced astonishingly. That’s a thing. Now, ff the game could be made a little more interesting. The left end position seems to be the hoodoo on the Yale team William Coates is the latest candidate for that position to be put out of commission, wrenching* his knee, Walter Camp, Jr., was disabled at the same position and the other day Kilpatrick was hurt.