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ARTHUR J. GOULD.
VIII,
IS THE GAME DETERIORATING?
been added. In the mutter of the cross-pant to bad played together. The only important
the open by an attacking wing threequarter ohango was the loss of the Brothers James, who is in danger of being hemmad in, wo see which, though u sorions one, was minimised by accuracy and judgment displayed which prove the fact that the rest of the team stuck loyally that the player is conscious of the value of tao to their club. There is a lesson in this for all cross-puut as a serious sid' to combination. clubs. If they hold together und prasties as- Forwards know their work in the combined siluously, there will be a general raising of the game as well as ever, halvos atow that they have standard of play and that will be the best possi thoroughly grasped the principles of combined ble answer to the question "Is Rugby football play, threequarters provo their understanding deteriorating P" of what is required in scientific attack. But their play, on the whole, was not so consistently up to the boat standard as in the past.
When one is called upon to answer the ques tion Is Ragby Football deteriorating" it Buos nucoasary to define the position to some extent. I can understand the attitude of the player of the old school, who having played the game in the days of the early giants, and singer their achievements through this mellowing at of time, is inclined to regard their successors an a degenerata race and every innovation as a step in the direction of deteriorativa. (ean sympathise with the old war-horse who
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of young and comparatively inexpezîduċ- Of course, the fact that an enormous num- players were drafted into the leading tus last season had its inevitablo effect, whits there was hardly a first-class team whieff, for one reRSON or another, did not suffer this is so, the play is bound to suffer. Clab more frequent changes than usual Whore
foothill so far as I saw it, and my experience was pretty extensive, was not marked by its usual brilliance and finish; but it was in In
viewed with unfeigned scorn, the apparent sacritice of the forward to the hark. But when we have to give an answer to the question which leads this article, it is necessary to take abroad and comprehensive view of football patting individuaf prejudices aside if possible.rnational football that those who favour the in Bilk, Lizon and Cotton, Grassolotland.What is our ideal of football "to be: Thu theory of deterioration found the greatest apparent justification for their argument. Eng. land, Scotland, und Ireland all'uade unsatisfao-
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in the point from which we must start. take it that it will be admitted that Ragly football is deteriorating if the changes troduced into the giuno bave made it la boneticial us a lealthy exercise, less pleasant for the players, lase effective in securing suEX, 49 compared with the earlier methods, and less interesting to watch. Judged on those lines,
football is not deteriorating.
NO WITH QUALIFICATIONS.
try displays in their opening matches. But if Rugby footall irus deteriorating, should wo rot expect to find the play at the end of the
season worse than in the midle? That was
far from being the case for all the countries with the exception of Wales) player better in their last matches than in their first or their second. Here again, it was a question of the men, and not of the game. In the opening matches, either.the best men were not selected. or, if selected, either were prevented from play. ng or were not in condition. Add this to the
were not individually the equals of their predecessors, and there is all cause to urge that "the game is deteriorating."
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I think I may claim that, during my playing career, I had opportunities of testing the changes in the gaão in actual practice, such as for men had. During the sixteen years that I Engineer Tools, Brass and Irun Mar i played first-class football, I saw the complete! fact that the International players, as a rule, Telegraphic Addross," Boavista."
transformation of the methods of play, and was au active partisiputer in the revolution. Since my rotirement I have followed the game closely referee and a member of the Welsh Rugby Union Selestion Committee. Therefore. I think
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first admitted to a frst-class team, there old be but one answer-that the game has improved immensely. But if we compare last sansen with the poried covered by the season from 1895-3 to to 1897-8, it is not so easy to answer. My own opinion and I know it is shared by many com- petent critics-is that the standard of interns. tional football in 1900. was lower than it had been at any time for a decade. At the first blush that might appear to be proof positive that the game has deteriorated. But it is aut D. 8. DADY BURJOR, "Los FILIPINOS,"
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the essential and the accidental. I hold most strongly that the law of progress the law of football" na it does to the human race and evolution applies to the game of Rugby social institutions. Sa long as Rugby foot hall has a useful part to play in the physical de- velopment and recreation of the race, I helieve it will continue to improve. I would continue to believe it, even if I evidences of temporary deterioration. I do not believe that the last word has been said npon the scientific possibilities of the game; I do not believe that the gaus, as it was played in my day, is the highest development of which it is capable. The game can be improved, and it will be improved. But it does not follow that because the game is improved the play at a given period must there- fore be better than at any earlier periods It all depends upon the teams. Let us give two simple illustrations. The organ may be perfect, the music may be writ fair, but it depends upon the player whose hands are on the keys and whose feet are os "The pedals whether a Euch fugue is a bungle or an inspiration. The horse may be tmined to the hour, and fit to run for a kingdom, but if the jockey blunder the race will be lost. It is not enough that the organist and the jockey know how it is done, they must be able to do it.
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APPARENT DETERIORATION;
TWO BRILLIANT MATCHES. One of my reasons for claiming that the game has not deteriorated is that right at tho Wales two matches which were scintille in the and of the season there were played in South highest degree. In these games we had bril fiant individual play, clever canbination, and the display of these qualities of resource mud indgement. Which go to the making of Bugby football at its hest. And the team who gave an exhibition of football worthy of the best traii- tions of the modern gaing wore a scratch team of Barbarians. Individually, they were a very fine lot, and they were not entirely strangers to each other. They had been selected with keen judgment, and while the forwards were ine in dividual players, tlicy did not make the mistake (so often made) of playing for themsolver alone. The whole team played the modern game as it should be played, neording to what I consider to be the true exons of Welsh
fair share in the game, and not mora; football-overy part of the team having its
forwards not sacrificing their individuality, but still playing for their backs. This Bar barian team included seven or eight Interna tionals, drawn, if I remember rightly, from all four countries. The groat point is, that they played scientific football of the bighost order, and gave an exhibition of the gas which, dur- ing the past four or five seasons, has seldom been equalled in South Waler by any team. club or international, while it would compaph favourably with the best displays of Welsh clubs at their best. If, at the end of 1899-1900, a scratch, team-no matter how brilliant the in dividuals can play a game wlach includes all the best points of modern scientifle Rugby foot- ball, can it be said that the game is deteriorat ing? This is a solitary instanes, but there were other teams who played good, scientiflo, resource- ful football. What of Swansea, with their one defeat of the season? They did not, perhaps, consistently maintain the highest level: bat there were times when their play was perfect. Other teams kept alive the best traditions of the game, in their beat displays, though not in all. Therefore I repest so long as we have lost-- nothing which goes to the making of scientific My explanation of the apparent deterioration football, the game is not deteriorating, even in Ragby football; is that in 1899-1900 the.in though the general standard of the players is dividual players were not quite no good as in temporarily (I believe it is only temporarily) previons seasons, and that the brilliant playoralewer than it was a fow seasons sizes, wors fower. There are great periods of com For my own part, I halievo-certainly I most parative barrenness. In athletics, in etery sincerely hope that we are within sight of an- branch of sport, it is the same. We look back other great revicél. The gaine is there to be upon the Elizabethun sm, and we find that in played, scientific methods are not lost, all that every field of achievement there were giants in needs to be done is to train up the teams. those days; we think of football in 1893, and When I look round upon the terms with whose we recall a host of great players and great teams. performances I am most familiar I am struck We think of 1899-1900, and we are bound to by the great number of young players of promise“ confess that players with great reputations on the included in their ranks. There is plenty of whole did themselves less than justice, while the material out of which to fashion grout foams. new stars in the firmament were few. There wore The secret of successful club football is for a ressoas for this, no doubt. Mauy fino fostball | fifteen to keep together for a series of reasons, players loft the country at the call of duty in coached by experienced players who know the South Africa, and teams were consequently dis. game thoroughly. This was the explanation of organised to some extent. Besides, sites the success which attended the great teams of the great period that I have indicated, there las past-the sanie men formed the teams, and they been a general retirement of old players, and know each other's play to a nidety through the building up of grout teams is a matter of experience gained at practice as well as in the time, especially now that so much depends upon field in important encounters. The most suç- combination. But that there is any real de-cessful club team of last season was Swansea, In fact, it wo julgo the gas at its bost, as the third season that practically the same fifteen terioration in the game, itself, I do not admit, and I believe I am right in saying that it was
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