Is Football Just a Game? THE glitter, the glamour, the sweeping end runs, smashing off tackle plays, completed and intercepted forward passes, the last minute touchdown that wins the game. Hero worship. Football. Thousands of the best of young American manhood participate each fall in this truly grand old game. They find in it a way to expel the energy which in our forefathers exhausted by blazing new trails through the wilderness, opening new frontiers. Instead of attempting to conquer a wilderness that is no more, to endure hardships that no longer exist, college men have turned to the clean hard played game of football as an outlet for these desires. But Weber College players, known throughout the Rockies for leadership on By Oscar Deming the girdiron have, under the far-sighted leadership of President Aaron W. Tracy, developed a new idea in inter-collegiate re-lations in football, the idea of contacting football teams for the purpose of promoting friendship and good will between the two schools participating and the two communities represented. Friendly relations, well played games that end with handshakes and congratulations have always been characteristic of Weber. Teams that have journeyed to Ogden from other intermountain schools have been treated as guests; everything by way of hospitality has been shown to make their stay in Ogden a pleasant memory. Weber girls have been partners for the evening for visiting athletes who have been guests of honor at the dance which follows each athletic contest. Enmity has given way to comradeship in many instances where old scores to be settled had existed. Weber teams have in turn been treated cordially and looked upon less as an enemy and more as a body sent to carry the good will of Weber College to each community. President Tracy is a firm believer in the idea that if nations can learn to play together they will be less likely to enter war. So having spread this feeling of good will between neighboring schools, Weber College under his administration has looked for larger fields to conquer. In 1928 a home and home game with the McKinley school of Honolulu was the result of his foresight and untiring efforts. This seemed a gigantic enterprise for a school of some three hundred students. And it was. But as a result thirty-three Weber students who made the long journey to Honolulu gained a new insight into the territory which at times is hardly realized as being a part of the United States, gained a wholesome respect for these islanders and their possessions; warmed to their hospitality, their generosity, their real spirit of love and brotherhood. The McKinley islanders who came to play Weber the return game, October, 1929, departed loud in praise of the wonders of the Rocky Mountain country. Now letters from students of the two schools skim back and forth, a warm friendly handclasp across the thousands of miles of land and water. Friendly relations, relations that promote peace! An incident occurred in Honolulu that 1 feel is worth mentioning. In the assembly given at the McKinley School on Decem-ber 22, 1928, two ideas were predominant: Christmas and football; the school was giving a program fitting to the spirit of Christmas and at the same time extending an official welcome to the Weber football team. From the choir came the strains of "Peace on Earth, good will to men." But the students, as the Weber men came down the aisle, were plainly in a football mood. They had talked, thought, slept this day for long weeks. Weber's coming was the talk of the island. President Tracy was called upon to speak. Sensing the informal spirit of the contest and the more formal, sacred spirit of Christmas, he wove them into one distinct theme: the spirit of peace. "Christmas and football, how they are related," he said, "as the spirit of peace and the spirit of play are related. When nations can learn to play together there will be no more war." Thus to one and all he showed that the spirit of Christmas was the spirit of peace, that by educating the people, leaders of the world were trying to bring world peace; but that it was not until nations had learned to play together that they would really forsake war. It was for this purpose, he explained, that the football team of Weber College had journeyed over mountain tops