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Illustration shows a lighthearted look at the game of football as though it were played by dainty men of effeminate natures.
In one of Puck‘s ever-increasing center-spreads given over to humorous commentary and multiple genre gags, cartoonist J. S. Pughe lobbed two softballs, not one, at readers: easy targets.
A group of football players, labeled “Steel Trust, Tool Trust, Tobacco Trust, Clothing Trust, Leather Trust, Oil Trust, Coal Trust, [and] Beef Trust” tackle a “Consumer” with a football labeled “Tariff Revision” during a football game at a stadium labeled “Stand Pat A.C.”
Perhaps inspired by President Roosevelt’s White House summit on violence in college football two weeks hence, cartoonist Joseph Keppler, Junior, chose a rather rougher scrum to make a point about “the average consumer” against a field of bullies, the trusts.
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates William M. Huntt’s letter and believes that appeals should be made to the South “just exactly as to the North.” Roosevelt mentions that an old Episcopal High School football player named Pendleton was part of the receiving committee at a Princeton speech.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-31
President Roosevelt disagrees with Harvard President Charles William Eliot that football should be stopped. He knows “scores” of young men who have morally and physically benefited from the sport. He believes that brutality and abuses should be removed from the game, but the effort to remove them is hindered by people who are instead trying to abolish it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-21
President Roosevelt encloses materials from Paul Joseph Dashiell regarding controversy during the Harvard-Yale football game, which he refereed. Roosevelt would like Harvard coach William T. Reid to show the materials to Harvard President Charles William Eliot and then return them. Roosevelt notes that each team believes that the opposing team is in the wrong. He does not want to see football abandoned, and thinks that the hysteria surrounding the sport is as bad as the brutality in the sport. He asks Reid to tell Eliot in particular that Dashiell will make a good umpire “with a little of the proper spirit behind him.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-14
A fashionably dressed, healthy young woman hangs on the arm of an injured football player. In the background, two hearty young men, a soldier and a sailor, home from military service during the Spanish-American War, and a young man, ill-suited for military service, are standing on the sidelines, no longer favored by the young woman.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-11-23
Two football players are dressed in outlandish gear. The one on the left wears a red uniform labeled “1892,” and the one on the right wears a blue uniform labeled “1912.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-11-13