Today's Tidbit... The Umpire Strikes Back?

('Wauseka and Fretz and Coach Warner Rule Off Field --- Umpire Is Attacked,' Philadelphia Inquirer, October 31, 1909.)

Players, coaches, and crowd members criticizing or attacking the officials at sporting events seem to be getting worse and more frequent, but it certainly is nothing new. Football had seen such incidents since well before the officials wore striped shirts; one of them occurred when Carlisle met Penn at Franklin Field in 1909.

Although Penn won two-thirds of the non-tie games betwe...