The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-17
INDIGNANT At YALE WH|MS.
The New Haven Football Eleven's
Actions Insult tie Public.
Princeton May Play U. of p. Here
Thanksgiving Day.

The storm OF Indignation is begin
ming to break around the heads of the
Yale football managers. The Princeton
Alumni Association of Newark, y. j.,
which Is the largest In the country,
next to those of New York City and
Philadelphia. opened up the fusillade
yesterday 1t says 1t Is time for
Princeton to assert her independence,
and characterizes Yale's stealthy efforts
to abandon the Thanksgiving Day game,
day which has become historic IN foot
bail annals, as " a piece of impertinence
ana assurance not to be tolerated for
single instant by Princeton"
pretty story comes from Cambridge
inis morning that Manager Moore. who
Is at the head of Harvard's athletic
arLraaasements. declares Yale has not
the Springfield game and that he does not
believe Yale has desired to have II
changed In order to allow plenty OF
giving bay same f t ever th Sa Thsn ks.
pocricy was unveiled in the present
affair. this statement of Mr.. Moore
ina makes ealdsr and more to
say Mr.. Moores opinion is, in their
minds. quite correct.
The BLUM that Yale cares nothing for
the ducats OF the public is nonsense
creaslng number OF students to New
snrv neo put Yale's very trumphs at
Thank sglvlng Day? How would the
teams be able to travel around In palace
cars. and how would the boat club be
supported If the big Thanksgiving Day
profit each year?
Heretofore Yale has played Harvard
and Princeton within the same period
and usually thrashed them both. Har-
ward DlaNS the in ha
country at this time. the University OF
Pennsylvania eleven, on Thanksgiving
Day in Philadelphia, and she has not
though the Harvard team is confessedly
weak and has been losing star players
day after day through injuries.
at all the Tigers would, willingly play
Yale. And. as Mr. John G. Bell has said:
PENNSYLVANIA would play. Yale on a
sary." so eager are the Quakers to play
Princeton has already conceded more
and on erounds Of Yaies ser choosing U sing.
than Princeton men feel was neces-
sary. in view Of Prlnceton's pre-emi-
pepce in football; n for Prh,ncetoppi not
just beginning to realize that Yale lie
In earnest in trying to deprive 1t of
the great annual game on Manhattan
have already secured hotel accommoda-
tons, engaged drags and invited friends
to see the game with them. as in for
mer years, comprehend the real situa-
ton, the howl that will go up on all
sides is certain to be halcyon and vo-
ciferous.
Yale's whim-for nobody supposes
Yale will not play here Thanksgiving
Day a year hence-is likely to disap-
point and anger thousands of the best
class of sport-loving people.
AS regards the Princeton-Pennsylva
MIA match. Princeton's attitude is open
to severe criticism, too. Princeton says
she won't play at the, Quakers' home
grounds his year; the single track
railroad from the Pennsylvania mair
line at Princeton Junction to Prince
ton proper, with no side tracks, pre-
cludes the possibility of accommoda tins
a 1.-THE OF the crowd that always flock.
to see the annual conflict between these
hereditary opponents, and the State
Fair Grounds, near Trenton, which
were considered as compromise, are
/ ill-suited to football.
! All now depends upon Princeton's
agreement to play Pennsylvania at
Manhattan Field to guarantee the pub
lie and all football lovers a magnificent
contest In lieu of the historic Thanks
giving Day game.