Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1910 — FOOTBALL. [ARTICLE]

FOOTBALL.

. Football is now being practiced as well as preached wherever educational facilities are provided for the youth of our land. Owing to the cruel selfishness of man in refusing to grant equal rights to woman the fair coeds may not share the terrors of the griddled field as she has a perfect right to. She may only stand on the side lines and squeal. Football is made milder every year. However, a fractured tibia or a broken femur or a busted rib is just the same, though it may be achieved mildly, as it is if produced by exploding dynamite. • . The great charm of football, let us say, is the sponge which is kept in the water bucket,.. W hen one -of the -heroes is injured this sponge is squeezed over his face and rubbed upon his brow. When another hero is thirsty he takes the sponge and chews it. While the authorities are eliminating mayhem and malicious assault and battery with intent to kill from the game, they are overlooking that sponge. , Also they might do something to set the brakes'on the football stories that must appeal to the November magazines. True, nobody has to'read them, but some pobr devil must write them. — Chicago Post. ■