Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1914 — REASON FOR EXTRA FOOTBALL OFFICIAL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REASON FOR EXTRA FOOTBALL OFFICIAL

Those who are frowning upon Walter Camp’s suggestion that an extra official be engaged to sit on the side lines ready to take the place of one of the active arbiters of play in case of sudden illness or injury, do not realize the chances that the umpire and, referee assume in a big game. One of the.most impressive pictures Of the last Harvard-Yale game was that of Referee W. S. Langford hobbling pathetically out of a melee, some giant guard having brought down one of his cleated feet not gently upon Langford’s ankle. And poor Neil Snow last year in that game had the.

time of his life in evading some of Mahlan’s boltlike dashes up and down the field. Mike Thompson, most übiquitous of all referees, always leaves a game with shirt torn and face marked, as a result of his headlong dives into a struggling group of players to determine who possesses the ball. The idea probably will die a natural death, however, because of the feeling of the small college men that they have enough money to pay out for officials now without having saddled upon them the expense of employing an emergency man.

Walter Camp.