The evening world., 1894-10-09
YALt'S FOOTBALL POSITION.
Objections to the Thanksgiving
Day Game Are Absurd.
Princeton Is willing and New York
Wants the Yearly Event.

IF Princeton yields to Yale's demand,
| that their annual football match be
deferred TO n later date than Thanks
giving Day, IT is certain to raise a
storm of protests. This game has be
come "A classic event in this country.
! Thousands Of men and women
| look forward to 1t 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 Thanksgiv-
ing Day Hundreds of dollars worth
! Of advertising is placed on the under
standing that the game is to be p.ayed
on "A National holiday. Leaves OF alb
sence are secured by students and brief
they may he present on this festive day
and cheer for their Alma Mater.
The game cannot be called earlier than
20, because the thrOngs which attend
cannot reach Manhatt1n Field sooner,
and other spots are all less accessible.
Every lay mat the / anne is set later
| than Thursday, Nov. %. means dark
loss so much earlier.
iale,s only plea for postponement Is
that she cannot afford TO run the risk
Of a defeat again at the hands of the
a
playing Harvard. ~ Is unusual for Yale
to sue for vantage this way. She has
defeated the Crimson at Springfield with
Last year. competent critics agreed
that Princston's 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.
game against Harvard, and five days
later defeated Princeton, led by the
doughty Poe, by the biggest score the
Blue ever made against the Tigers. viz:
80 to 0. There was no thought OF a post
ponement then. even though Yale had
been defeated by Harvard u to g. and
1t was by no means certain Pi'nceton
would not beat Yale, too.
More than that, not Yale, but Prince
ton is the champion, and II there is TO
be any dictation of times and places, by
Is the dictator. Yale has always domi
mated the intercollegiate councils, but 1t
Is hard to believe President Mum, of the
to Yale's cool demands in the face of the
well-known fact that President Patton,
of Princeton College, himself favors the
selection IL Tina lksgiving Day.
Princeton is willing, nay, anxious to
pay that selfsame Harvard team her
self five days before or after Yale does,
or any time, so lors 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 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 IL VIII be for
Yale to encounter Princeton.
When 1t GENES to playing games in
quick succession, a glance at Iale's
schedule shows that, she will TACKLE
le. ann NntF Il oh lob NnN
10, with Election Day, Nov, I, open
Thus Yale would play Nov. g. and TO-
or three severe games in week, and
that week in the middle of the season.
when her team will not vet he fully
hardened.
OF course. the financial argument is
| altogether against Yale's position. a
game played here or anywhere else on
date other than Thanksgiving Day
means decrease in receipts of more
than $1,000 As the net proceeds OF this
annual event usually pay the expenses
OF the Yale and Princeton teams for the
entire season the ducats are not to be
overlooked. The receipts of last years
game We're 81, 900, according to the state
ment furnished by the University Ath-
letic Club which again assumed the
MANAGEMENT; the expenses of admins
| tratiOn footed up about $4,000 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-
HANGED this season. the net receipts
| this year should be over $1,000 il
| Thanksgiving Day Is chosen. If am
| other date IS chosen. the gross receipts
| VIII probably not reach $4,000 This
means net loss to each college of
$1,000 or 5000.
| In the face of these considerations, it
seems scarcely possible that Yale Will
compel thousands of football enthu-
sasts to torego their annual Thanks
giving Day treat, for thousands who
would go on that holiday cannot get
away on any subsequent day.