New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-07
ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD.
THE QUESTION OF THE HARVARD
PRINCETON GAME-THE PERSONNEL
or THE PRINCIPAL TEAMS.


PRINCETON GAME-THE PERSONNEL
OF THE PRINCIPAL TEAMS
The week has been full of coniectures as to inc
availability of a Harvard Princeton game TINS year,
and now IL seems TO be finally settled that there
will be no game The reply which Captain En-
mons sent TO CAPTAIN Trenchard in regard TO the
matter has caused great deal or comment We
have all heard that Harvard is afraid OF frnce'oh'
that Harvard is trying avoid strong team TINS
vaar and waiting for a weak one next year; that
Harvard cannot stand three important games
while Princeton can. and several other equally
unfounded reasons. the most unjust OF all "hich
is that the refusal of Harvard TO play Is uhsPo''S
manhke 1t is perhaps difficult TO give the a''uh'
reasons for the procedure on both sldcs III 'he
case and vet little calm thought on the subject
ought TO dispel many of these d0uDtlul iutaS' am
absurd statements. For example. the question as
to whether Harvard shall accept or reuse ei tneo
toms challenge rests with whom? WIN EaP,alHh
Emmons. Robert bacon pr W. A. Br fSe db n,
70 football @'a" referee in the United states. He has
refereed Vac Princeton games time out az mind
Robert Hacon has the universal respect OF arc
princeton and Harvard mfa ake r as beahd
rot Harvard man, and IS takng UP loU yo 0hi
nntprallv want to see all the games that could be
ARRANGED. CAPTAIN Emmons might poss,py ab oe
dent one which Influences all the others
IL
SLY to charge these representative men with wish
ing n avoid p,aving Princeton because OF fear that
they might be beaten. Heaven knows Harvard mas
taken defeats enough 70 have learned how to stand
un ana take another without crying II Is ciearE
more absurd to say that Harvard is waiting for
weak year AZ princeton Princeton never In the his
tory of modern American football had weak eleven
The tigers are always strong and they will be strong
next year as they will be this. as they were last
year OF course they may not be champions again
mill hay
as they have always had Banking on weak
teams in the future could not be the reason Of such
as have named Ihen as say t',r INA, , ~
of unspOrtsmaniik" conduct Is perhaps the most IN
lust the siliest Of al the reasons, and If there -
any unsporjsman.ike conduct in the matter should
look for it among those VINO nave D'eia spr"datlhs
these reports. 1t is conspicuous fact mat neither
as giving these reasons. Thcy want 70 Pay Harvard
any Harvard man trust w9ut KT TO nd reH f
charge these reasons that haye l'led ootoaII cor
n challenre then how many unsportsmanlike things
are being done day by day. Then Yale is unsportS-
manlike in refusing TO row half a dozen i2ur-miie
races at New-Ionion each spring and another COZ
lege is unspOrtsnlnke In refusing 70 go TO Chicago
certain Things cannot be arranged. 1t Is not that
Harvard loves to meet Princeton less but mat she
loves meet Yale more
In the opinion of the Cambridge management the
Yale game is the one great thing in football TOT
the year In saying this they mean no disrespect
to Princeton any more than Princeton would mean
any disrespect TO Harvard in the same position
The Harvard men have played Yale now upwards
of twenty years and they have succeeded in de-
feating her That is not = very glorious
record, and if the management want TO make II
2 TO a. say. they Will have TO let everything go
by that will not help them toward making the az
land if they feel that a Princeton game before
the Yale game is either in one case going TO mean
in the season looking IT with regard to the Yale
tateG bv The PTnceon game from 2aying asan
then cannot see how the charge OF unsportsman-
any one else after moments thought? Prime
ton Will not play Harvard after she has played
she Is quite right Lkewise Harvarl viii not play
Princeton before she plays Yale, and under The
right tight at "'S''''''' '"''' '"e N''' " '''''
The progress that is slowly being made toward
uniform long-term agreement between Yale and
Harvard seems to 10 promise a better future
for amateur sport than any other one thing at this
writing. 1t has done more for the extraordinary
purity and good feeling that spread all through
English sport. this similar agreement between OK
ford and Cambridge, than could possibly be osti-
mated. All the unfortunate secrecy and the pry-
ing and sneaking parts OF present systems in
this country continual surprise to English
men, 1t was a year ago that c. W. Whitney
who was at the time watching English university
sports was surprised TO find a Cambridge man. and
Cambridge coach at that. going out in the oxford
launch along with the Oxfori coach while the
latter was coaching his crew, which. by the way
was Cambridge in a short three weeks
That seems incredible here to-day, when we play
football behind fences out in the country where
strangers not allowed to be present. And
am persuaded that II all the little advantages tha
all trying TO get one over the other Sou'
be done away with. our amateur sport would D,
o. d much cleaner and higher order Nothlnt
could do more to help this forward as noihint
term agreement in athletics between Harvard an'
Yale. which would soon set standard FOR thu
country. The question OF victory or defeat doe
not enter into the matter. Princeton might bea
both Yale and Harvard. so might any other col
other colleges and be defeated; but there WOui,
like conduct in the matter. one way or the other
because ii would be an arrangement which wa
However. space is too limited here to go INTO
philosophical discussion. and We must turn to tn
personnel OF the big teams
The men have all had a good week and o
the more important teams have had AT least one AM
perhaps two games already The practice OF tn
games so far have told very little. Every team
stiu trying TO find what its material is goin
TO furnish. and the old men are not even yet har
at work They are being used in some cases a
beginning they have not turned in for hard work
This coming week VIII see all the principal eleven
practically chosen. barring accidents.
or the more important teams Vale has probabl
the fewest changes 20 make, and though the wor
of the eleven on September 20 was anything but
credit to the NewHaven men, 1t was easy to Sc
that there not much 10 De taught the player
in this instance either Cambridge or Princeton
or course. It is utterly impossible to tell anythin
OF the relative strength Of these eevens mont
better started than either Of the other college.
Their play that Saturday was not ragged. IL wa
paces wsre flied By new men partly to give Their
practice and partly because the other men have n
need to play at the moment In game and can there