The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-09
YALE's FOOTBALL POSITION,
Objections to the Thanksgiving
Day Game Are Absurd,
Princeton Il willing and New York
Wants the Yearly Event.

II Princeton yields to Yales demand,
that their annual football match be
| deferred TO a later date than Thanks
giving Day. 1t is certain to raise IL
storm OF protests. This game has be-
come classic event in this country.
Thousands of men and women
| look forward to II for weeks,
and elaborate preparations are made
to witness It. Coaches, drags and hotel
accommodations are engaged weeks in
advance.
The souvenir programme Is gotten up
with especial reference to Thanksgv
ing Day. Hundreds OF dollars worth
OF advertising Is placed on the under
standing that the game is to he played
on a National holiday. Leaves OF alb
sence are secured by students and brief
vacations by busy alumni in order that
they may be present on this festive day
and cheer for their Alma Mater.
The game cannot be called earlier than
22O, because the throngs which attend
cannot reach Manhattan Field sooner,
and other spots are all less accessible.
Every Jay that the I dme is set later
than Thursday, Nov. 20 means dark
less so much earlier.
iales only plea FOR "a postponement Is
mat she cannot afford TO run the risk
or defeat again at the hands Of the
playing Harvard. 1t is unusual for Yale
/ TO sue for vantage this way. She has
defeated the Crimson at Springfield with
such regularity and decision that her
excuse Will not be well received now.
Last year, competent critics agreed
that Princeton,s all-round superiority
defeated her, If she had had two weeks
rest after the Harvard match. though
the Thanksgiving day game might have
been much less onee::sided.,
-Four years ago Yale played n hard
game against Harvard, and five days
later defeated Princeton, led by the
doughty Poe, by the biggest score the
81 to 0. There was no thought of a post
ponement then. even though Yale had
been defeated by Harvard y T. 6, and
II was by no means certain Princeton
would not beat Yale. too.
More than that. not Yale. but Prince
ton Is tie champion, and If there is to
be any dictation Of times and places, by
is the dictator Yale has always domi-
mated the intercollegiate councils, but it
Is hard to believe President Mum, of the
Princeton Football ton. will yield
TO Yale's cool demands in the face of the
well-known fact that President Patton,
OF Princeton College, himself favors the
selection OF Tha lksgiving Day.
play that seif-same Harvard team her
self. five days before or after Yale does,
or any time, so long as Harvard Will
Again, Harvard will have to play the
strong University Of Pennsylvania team
five days after she encounters Yale. and
that, too. In Phila lelphia, where the Grim.
son plays this season on Thanksgiving
Day. II win be quite as hard for Har
yard to play Pennsylvania five days after
the Springfield game, as II will be for
Yale to encounter Princeton.
When 1t comes to playing games In
quick succession. II glance at Yale''s
schedule shows that she, will tackle
10, with Election Day, Nov. 7, open.
Thus Yale would play Nov. g. 7 and 10.
or three severe games In a week, and
that week in the middle of the season,
when her team will not yet be fully
hardened.
or course, the financial argument ls
game played here or anywhere else on
"a date other than Thanksgiving Day
meant decrease In receipts OF more
than $1,000 AS the net proceeds OF this
OF the Yale and Princeton teams for the
entire season the ducats are not to be
overlooked. The receipts Of last years
game were 81, 900, according to the state
ment furnished by the University Ath-
letic club, which again assumed the
management; the expenses Of admins
rental of the grounds. which was 100
Under prudent management with the
ever increasing interest In football
which the new rules have greatly en-
HANGED this season, the net receipts
this year should he over $4,000. If
| Thanksgiving Day is chosen. If an
other date l. chosen. the gross recepts
Will probably not reach 10000 This
means net loss 10 each college of
$1,000 or 5000.
In the face of these considerations 1t
seems scarcely possible that Yale Will
compel thousands of football enthu-
siasts to forego their annual Thanks
giving Day treat for thousands who
would go on that holiday cannot get
away on any subsequent day.