1905 British Association Football Trying To Take Over American Football

The British association football athorities are planning a systematic invasion of the American football field, with the hope of firmly establishing the English popular Winter sport in this country. The visit of the pilgrimteam from England is to be used as a vehicle to accomplish this project. The recent offer of Sir Ernest Cecil cochrane of a two-hundred- and-fifty-dollar international trophy for association football matches between college teams of America, Canada, and England will be supplemented with an offer to supply professional association coaches to all the leading American Colleges for the purpose of introducing the game.

The English football players say the American college game is brutal and featureless, and believe that a fair trial for the association game would result in its adoption. The English felt that the absence of competent american coaches is believed to be the real cause of its non-popularity and Sir Alfred Harmsworth will send to this country a corps of expert players to coach college teams. He will pay the expenses of the coaches during their stay in America, so that colleges will not be taxed for their services.

The British felt that because of the brutality of the game of football would bring a change in this country so they wanted to introduce the game of soccer. Coach CAmpbell