Thanksgiving day the tables were turned.
Yale had more than her match, and for the first
time in four years Princeton downed her old rival.
The score 6—o might easily have been larger, for
the Tigers played like fiends, and it was only be
cause they were met by fiends that they did not
score several times. Princeton's goal was never
menaced, while the Yale men had to fight desper
ately to prevent Princeton from scoring again.
The Tiger's game was simply magnificent. Com
petent judges say it was one of the very best that
any team has ever put up. Of course the Jersey
men went wild with joy, but their moderation was
in marked contrast to the high carrying on that
occurred last year, and they must be complimented
as a body. Delaying the principal celebration
until they reached home was a step greatly to be
recommended, and all the order loving people of
the metropolis were heartily grateful.
Football this season was more popular than
ever, and there were few towns of any size
that did not have one or more elevens de-
voted to the exciting sport. It is corning more
and more into general favor, largely on ,account
of professionalism not having as yet obtained a
foothold. The question naturally arises, what is
the future of the game ? Will it be materially
modified, and if so will it still keep its hold on
the public mind ? These questions are open to
varicus answers. The general method of play
may and very probably will undergo some radical
changes. The mass play which has been found to
b: so effective, will probably have to yield to public
sentiment. It is dull and uninteresting to the
average spectator, and it is the pace that kills. It
is not in the fierce tackling, or brutal slugging
that the serious injuries occur, but in the grind
ing, pushing, twisting and straining of the wedge
and the line plays. This year such accidents
were especially numerous. Five fatalities oc
curred, and, although none of them happened on
teams of any prominence, they serve to show the
danger especially to novices at the game.
THE FREE LANCE.
Play will necessarily become more open, and
quickness and activity will in the end count more
than weight and strength. We have been this
tendency in the flying interference of this season
and the Deland tricks so much talked about be
fore the Springfield game. These tricks failed to
do their work there, not from any inherent weak
ness of their own, but for the simple reason that
Harvard was "rattled" if we may use the term. She
was afraid of Yale before she went into the game,
and her confidence was all of the weakkneed va
riety. Princeton used flying interference at Man
.
hattan field and won.
We cannot deny that it is the most dangerous
sport in which one can engage, and we of course
forgive the opposition it is meeting from parents
and older, conservative people ; but we see no
good excuse for such action as that taken by the
chief of police of Pittsburg. That gentleman has
issued an edict to the effect that this season marks
the end of all football playing within the limits of
his jurisdiction. Whether this order so bravely
delivered will be carried out, remains to be seen.
It certainly is unjust and ,insulting as well, for it
puts football on a plane with pugilism.
For that matter, however, we might as well grin
and bear it. Everybody is jumping on football
now. It is becoming quite the fad. The comic
papers have taken it up, and the unfortunate de
votees of the game are being dragged across the
coals of their satire. But the game is here to stay.
It has fastened its hold on the minds of the
younger generation, and it
,is bound to thrive.
HUMANITY is always tco prone to take its
opinions second-handed. College men
are no exceptions to this rule. In fact
they are almost more willing than most people to
accept the ready-made ideas of some one else in
preference to thinking them out themselves. In
this way, with all our boasted democracy and
broad-mindedness, the most senseless and unwar
ranted prejudices take root among us. New men