Just a Dance

As REPORTED BY Cosmopolitan in the last number Gertrude Stein has something to say about American football. Her impressions of the sport were received during her attendance at a Yale-Dartmouth game in New Haven. We quote, with the permission of Cosmopolitan:

"It was like Indian dancing. And that isnatural enough because the soil makes theway anyone is moving, and they and theIndians have been and were being, madeby the same thing.

"They, in the Indian way, they put.their heads down and in a circle therethey stay. And then the substitutes do thelittle Indian movement jicst the way theIndians do any day. And then and that isthe most so they come down on all fours,anybody knows that is just the way the Indian does it any day. And then they alllook at the big brown ball.

"It is a real Indian dance, and beforethey were so American, as they are now,they did not do it in that way, they did notdo football in that way. It was an American thing, not football anybody's football,but the way, the American xvay, that theywere doing that thing."