THE REAL FOOIBALL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10881, 26 January 1907, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE REAL FOOI BALL

The "game" of football, as fought and won on the playing fields — or slaying fields— of Yale and Harvard, is quite in keeping with the strenuous life (remarks a London paper). From an account ol the great inter- 'Varsity contest between Princeton and Yale, at Princeton recently, tho following details of 'How the two elevens fought up and down the Gridiron" gave one a lively idea of how football is played, and described, in America: — "The Yale Bulldogs came on the field first with a defiant growl. The husky band of tawny jungle Tigers rushed on the field with a contented purring sound. McCormick fumbled, and a Yale man fell on the ball. Jones signalled for a fake kick, and Veeder fell back as if to punt, but Knox took the ball for a line smash. The Tigers were not to be fooled, and clawed the wiry Knox to earth without a gain. Another exchange of punts followed, when the watchful eye of Umpire Wrenn caught one of the Bulldogs clinging to a Tiger mane. But the efiect of this good work was soon overcome by the kings of the jungle. On the next play an orange and black sweater flashed behind the Blue line, and with a roar a Bulldog was slashed to earth by the fiercer claws of a Tiger. When the mass was untangled it was found that 'Cap' Wister, going with the speed of an express train, had eluded Forks, and, catching Knox behind his own line, had thrown him for a big loss." After that, one's involuntary exclamation is "Half-time !" To which we may add that, according to a New York telegram, up to the present eleven football players have been killed and 104 injured, as against eighteen killed and 159 injured in 1905. Up to the present! And we English call ourselves sportsmen.