New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-14
ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD.
GAME-THE CORNELL AND
AMI. rE-AMc

THE QUESTION OF THE YALEPRINCEToN
GAME-THE CORNELL AND
PENNSYLVANIA TEAMS
The two or three meetings that have been held
IN Ncw-York during the last week relative to the
Thanksgiving Day football game have resulted up
TO the present i'm something % a deadlock The
game will be played of course, and therefore the
deadlock is only temporary. but the reasons for
this delay are not difficult 10 find. In the FIRST
pace all the college faculties are opposed 70
making any college sport gladia torial combat
where any spectator by paying his entrance fee
can see students fighting ont their college con-
tests together. There is great deal o. justice IN
this and while the money raised by charging en-
trance Zee is perfectly legitimate the places where
tho rarncs are paved and the dates on which they
are played make great deal Of difference In the
character OF the people who come to witness
them and therefore difference in the morale
OF the whole matter. To have game OF
football in New-York is. OF course. pleasant ana
convenient for the college men who I've IN The
city They like 20 get chance TO see their col
lcge team play when they can ana mos, 81 , mem
canpot get away 10 go !" oibn hand 70 have
game in New York means The presence OF some
OF the floating population of the city: men who
take no interest in the collegiate part. but merely
go to combat as they would 90 TO a ploieS
sonal baseball game or to cock-nghl ihS ""t 10Y
ony hurts the true amateur sportsmans,niIP .,
the games, but it really Injuries the young s,gGeis
prevents certain changes being made at the Iast
a SHOW for spectators instead OF game for the
supremacy of one or the other UNIVERSITY III t wa,
that the game is aged on a great \ationai honiay
like Thanksgiving Day. the professional elednei H.
professional football professional baseball games
are not pleasant things to watch do mean o ,ha'
TO become professional contests
This argument was strongly used by both the
Yale and Princeton faculties last fell. and the
ll..l he
70 return to Princeton that same night IN ,h's
they were wise and But in spite OF all this
there was then and IS now a distinct movement on
foot to abolish football games in great CITY IKE
New-York so far as possible This. then. is reason
enough for the discussion that has arisen over the
Thanksgiving Day game this year. But that Is NOT
the real reason for the refusal OF Yale to play Inc
Yale management has the support OF It's racu''F III
the matter for the reasons given Dni cae IS nov by
reason Of he proximity OF the TWO pig game me
last year. even If her team had not pee' "eahen.
by tn Harvard game few days before j. a nlattei
tnai IL WOi f,p az without getting any nearer
a Satisfactory coIciusion. have already sad tina;
team It certainly does in general injure the chances
of football team to MAKE the men play Two 0n Sug
Yale had such phenomenal success as 10 WIZ pom i
she did not Object slTongXI nTuEn S'e It
when she was defeated as she was iast year. - am
this year she refuses to respect the ARRANGEMENT
Ana in my opinion she is quite rgh, in doing 50. It
is neither necessary arrangement, nor Is Il good
for the men who have TO play
The real reason. therefore. for Yale refusing to
play on Thanksgiving Day is this She asks for
December o. which is a short week later than
Thanksgiving Day. and eleven days after the
Harvard game and up to this writing Princeton
refuses on the ground that Thanksgiving Day is
the time-honored football day. and that the game
of that day is the game of the year That fact
two
now the Harvard-Yae game at Springfield has
become such feature that the Thanksgiving Day
game has gradually come to be the professional
game, while the other is the great college
sporting contest of the year, with the possible eN-
ception OF the New London boat race. Princeton
partly holds 20 Thanksgiving Day on this account
and partly or account of the enormous gate re-
oeipts But shere is little probability that the
game Will b" omitted; since princeton Is more
anxious to ply Yale than Yale to p9y hrF o sma
other day than the holiday
Thus the situation stands at the present writing
with the probab y that the game will be played
either December ! or D. As TO the grounds,
there seems to be difference of opinion. 1t would
certainly be better to have the game at some dis
lance from the city, the farther away II is the |
fewer professional sportsmen and general excite
ment-huntng NEWCOMERS will he present on |
the other hand Princeton and Yale graduates and |
their frienas Will 20 any way. whether the game !
takes place FAR or near. am sure that many a |
world, who would go TO it wherever and whenever |
II took place just because his college is repre-
scented. would heave long deep sigh Of relief |
when he heard II was not TO take place on Thanks |
giving Day, and say. as / heard one man say last
Thanksgivng Day This viii be- the first TIM rye
had a Thanksgiving dinner in thirteen years"
II seems therefore, everything considered that
1t will be fairer all and peasanter as
well better for the sror: itse.i TO keep up
the Thanksgiving Day game and il il TO be hoped
that the Princeton management will realize this
Irf,ac
when he hears It said that Yale only beaten
last year because the used up from the
Harvard game: for though he believes that is not
the reason Tor Prlncetons victory. he cannot be
sure and make others sure. Above all things. how
ever. the charge | have heard from one two
quarters that Yale is afraid OF a defeat under the
circumstances Is the most absurd reason Of all
Yale men seem TO know how 70 take defeat as
well others. and If they beaten there is no
disgrace. The charge Of unsportsmanlike conduct
is here quite absurd as in the OF The liar
1 zane IN c0nnecton WIN ms e ,h[re
can leave this matter of the gam dates and pro
made for entrance fees. 1t Is not only unfortunate
but absurd that man should be obliged TO pay
has nothing to do with the matter: whether the
game IL of shorter or longer duration the price
the men play to watch their Skin and generalship
add detract from the value of the contest But
on the other hand, since these games are not
10 pay expenses the price should be what II is
AS matter OF fact the high price Is set because
the managers know that the class Of people who go
to football games Is one which will pay anything
10 see them without thinking very much about the
matter way or the other. That may be the
case. but nevertheless the charge is cxtortionate
and IL should not be continued. The more money ]
the teams have the more they spend. If they know
they not 70 receive so much during the year
they VIII not up such bills But word as
10 the weeks work among the big teams.
The game between the Crescents and the Yale !
team on Saturday. the 9Th the most unsatis
factory sort OF exhibition that have seen In
many a day. In the first place-and perhaps be-
cause Il is still early in the seasonthe Crescents