Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1913 — IN PRAISE OF SOCCER GAME [ARTICLE]

IN PRAISE OF SOCCER GAME

No Place for Dissipating' Athlete and Develops Real Athletes—Purely Scientific Game. « Footfall the schoolboy or college student, but I think many will agree with me when I sav it practically ends there, and I think it is wrong When the college student sacrifices his life for such a dangerous game and disappoints his parents, who invested their saving! in him in order that he might earnr hls bread and be of service to his country. The high schools of Chicago are waking up to this fact, and more interest has been taken in soccer than has ever been before, writes Robert Smith in the Chicago Tribune. . As a winter game it has no equal. Here is where the dissipating athlete meets his Waterloo. Soccer cannot use the smoke fiend or the beer drinker, and If Chicago had more soccer players it would have more real athletes. While it is purely a scientific game and requires a fine degree of accuracy and of brain work, the player will always come out on top who observes the laws of physical culture.