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 Is willing and New York
Wants the Yearly Event.

n Princeton Yields to Yale's demand,
that their annual football match be
deferred to later date than Thanks
giving Day, It Is certain to raise a
storm Of protests. This game has be-
come n classic event In this country.
Thousands Of men and women
look forward to II for weeks,
and elaborate preparations are made
to witness II. 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 be played
on 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
29O. because the throngs which attend
cannot reach Manhattan Field sooner
ana other spots are all less accessible
Every day that the Ame is get later
than Thursday, Nov. g. means dark
Less so much earlier.
Yale,s only plea for postponement Is
that she cannot afford 10 run the risk
OF 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 viii not be well received now.
Last year. competent critics agreed
that Prlncetons all-round superiority
was so distinct that Yale could not have
defeated her II she had had two weeks
rest after the Harvard match. though
the Thanksgiving day game might have
been much less one-sided.
-Four years years ago va, Yale played hard ard
later defeated Princeton, led by the
doughty Poe, by the biggest score the
Blue ever made against the Tigers. VIZ
ponement then. even though Yale had
been defeated by Harvard IL to 6, and
II was by no means certain PRINCETON
would not beat Yale, too.
More than that, not Yale, but PR nce-
ton Is the champion. and If there is to
be any dictation OF times and places, by
is the dictator. Yale has always doml-
mated the intercollegiate councils, but 1t
is hard to believe President Mum, OF the
Princeton Football Association, will yield
to Iales cool demands in the face OF the
well-known fact that President Patton.
of Princeton College. himself favors the
selection on Thanksgiving Day.
play that seif-same Harvard team her
self, five days before or after Yale does,
| or any time, SO long as Harvard will
play Princeton.
Again, Harvard will have to play the
strong University of PENNSYLVANIA team
five days after she encounters Yale. and
that, too. in Philadelphia, where the Grim
son plays this season on Thanksgiving
Day. 1t will be quite as hard for Har-
ward to play Pennsylvania five days after
| the Springfield game, as 1t will be for
Yale to encounter Princeton.
When It comes to playing games in
quick succession. glance at fales
schedule shows that she will tackle
10 with Election Day, Nov 7, open.
Thus Yale would play Nov. 3, and 10.
| or three severe games In week, and
| that week in the middle of the season,
when her team will not yet be fully
| hardened.
OF course, the financial argument is
altogether against Yates position.
game played here or anywhere else on
date other than Thanksgiving Day
means a decrease in receipts OF more
than $4,000. 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 $1,000 according cor to the state
| letic club, which again assumed the
management: the expenses of admins
tration footed up about s12, 900 beside the
rental of the grounds, which was 5000.
Under prudent management, with the
ever increasing interest in football
which the new rules have greatly en-
| nhnCeu InlS season, tne net receipts
this year should be over $4,000 IL
Thanksgiving Day Is chosen. If an
other date is chosen. the gross receipts
Will probably not reach $4,000 This
means n net loss to each college of
"a, 900 or 5000
In the face of these considerations II
seems scarcely possible that Yale will
compel thousands OF football enthu-
slasts to forego their annual Thanks
giving Day treat, for thousands who
would go on that holiday, cannot get
away on any subsequent day.