see how anyone who candidly and fairly considers the arguments of
the opponents of the game can hold to the opinion that it is a fit
game for school-boys or collegians, without changes of the most
radical nature.

In this letter, the length of which I hope you will pardon, I have
said nothing about the other objections to football urged by many,
for most of these do not concern the actual game, and will
probably correct themselves in time; but I wish to point out that
something must be done to rid the game of its objectionable
features, and also that it is unjust and discourteous to those who
oppose the game from conscientious motives to brand them as
weaklings and cowards.

C. S. WOOD, R.T.F.

[Mr. Wood brings out many interesting points in his letter regarding
football, and though most of his objections to the game refer more to
intercollegiate than to interscholastic football, still, to a certain
degree, they apply to both. We do not deny that the game is rough and
dangerous; but what was meant in the phrase to which Mr. Wood refers was
not that people are timid who do not approve of football, but that those
people who say that football is the most dangerous game there is, that
it is cruel, that it should be stopped by law, that it is worse than the
gladiatorial combats of ancient Rome, are either timid or not in their
right senses. Football is not as rough as polo; it is not as dangerous
as coasting (as coasting is now understood); it is not as dangerous as
cross-country riding, and the proportion of injuries in both polo and
cross-country riding is far greater than those in football. The facts of
the case are that so much has been written and so much said implying
that the game is necessarily a villanous game, that many people who know
nothing about it, have grown to talk about it, and depreciate it because
they fancy it contains injuries which it does not contain. These people
have done a great deal to bring a fine game for boys into bad odor, and
it is to these, and not to those who understand the game--both its good
and its bad points--that the remark referred to was addressed.--THE
EDITOR.]

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