The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guideThe official rules book and record book of college football . absolute worthlessness of comparisonsbased on the outcome of games is well illustrated by the fact thatin the week following her victory over Minnesota Carlisle was beatenby Vanderbilt. Michigan had before this defeated Vanderbilt. Penn-sylvania won from Michigan, and Carlisle had overwhelmed Pennsyl-vania. The greatest development in the possibilities of the new ruleswas, in the West, doubtless exhibited by Chicago, where two playersof particular dash and brillianc
The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guideThe official rules book and record book of college football . absolute worthlessness of comparisonsbased on the outcome of games is well illustrated by the fact thatin the week following her victory over Minnesota Carlisle was beatenby Vanderbilt. Michigan had before this defeated Vanderbilt. Penn-sylvania won from Michigan, and Carlisle had overwhelmed Pennsyl-vania. The greatest development in the possibilities of the new ruleswas, in the West, doubtless exhibited by Chicago, where two playersof particular dash and brilliancy, peculiarly adapted to the openstyle, were found in Eckersall and Steffens. The forward pass wasquite generally experimented with by all the Western schools, but thefeeling is general that the possibilities of the new rules have onlybegun to be exploited. The coming season is looked forward towith more than usual intei-est and it may be fairly said that havingpassed through a period of storm, Western Foot Ball has safelyweathered the crisis and is now more than ever firmly established ona stable and permanent SPALDINGS OFFICIAL FOOT BALL GUIDE. 37 FOOT BALL IN THESOUTHWEST BY E. B. COCHEMS, COACH ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY U^ SOSSSStlSII Foot Ball in the Southwest includes all schools and colleges in thoseStates which comprise what is commonly known as the LouisianaPurchase Territory. The most important schools are Missouri State University, Universityof Kansas, University of Texas, St. Louis University, WashingtonUniversity, University of Arkansas, University of Oklahoma, WashburnUniversity, Agricultural Schools of Kansas and Texas ; Rolla School ofMines, Drury, St. Marys, Haskell Indians, William Jewell College, etc. The two new features, viz., the reform hysteria and the new rules,which distinguished the 1906 season from its predecessors, left thesame effects here as elsewhere. One college abolished the game and anumber of others adopted what appears to be ultra-eth
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