Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1916 — FOOTBALL IS ACADEMIC GAME [ARTICLE]

FOOTBALL IS ACADEMIC GAME

Schools and Colleges Relied on to Maintain High Standards of Sportsmanship in Its Play.

According to the football rules hook, 'football, both in play and by traditioiv is distinctively an academic game —the game of schools and colleges. The friends of the game must accordingly rely on the schools and colleges for .'the preservation of its past traditions land the maintenance of the high standards of sportsmanship in its play which are to be expected in a distinctively ■academic game.

In some sports, it is possible to attain reasonable high standards simply jby the adoption and enforcement of rules, but this is not true in football. jThere are so many players engaged iin action, and the action is so rapid and constantly shifting that it is im. possible for any official to discover ev« ■ery possible infraction of the rules. Because of this fact and with the intension of upholding the standards of the tgame, the committee on rules has jadopted the following: “The football player who intentionlally violates a rule is guilty of unfair play and unsportsmanlike tactics, and whether or not he escapes being penalized, he brings discredit to the good name of the game which it is his duty to uphold.”