New-York tribune., 1895-10-14
ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD.
THE SITUATION AS REGARDS HARVARD.
YALE AND PRINCETON-THE NEW


practically now decided to have no Yale-HarVaru
game this vear The worst OF the matter Is that
This not only means the loss of game TINS year
between the two great American universities out
that II practically implies that there VIII DE no loo'
ball game next year The Harvard resuiauo"s re-
gardlng athletics which were passed iast spring
oblige all teams to play college grounds ana
ttIs nractica,lv necessitates two-year agreement
II any agreement Is made with another coHege-
I. e. a game each OF the grouDfs OF the TWO coz
Ieges concerned. Hence Harvard Is practica"y
obliged to make two-year agreement al ledS' anu
II she should play Princeton this year the iet"'m
game next year would give her three heavy footpali
matches in November. e., Cornell pennsylvania
and Princeton It is probable that this woulh pre-
cude any idea OF playing Yale since four games.
two Of which with Princeton ana faie "ou'u
make It too heavy season for any one team "
undertake Another difficulty and another source OF
regret is the fact that the Harvard Athletic COM
mittee has seen fit to decided that unless Harvard
can make an Arrangement with Yale In all sports
she sha. not meet Yale in any. This at hrst seems
no doubt to be n somewhat unjust ana un"ise ue-
csion. but the the athletic condition is con-
sderod in its broadest sense the wiser the Harvard
positlon will be found to be- There Is no question
that athletics such as the football game of last
season are an injury to collegiate life No one de-
MES this not even the students themselves, ana
hence It has been found that intercollegiate a'h-
Ietlcs and college athletics In general must II Il
m to-day
athletic committees to keep them within BOUNDS
where they belong a portion or college me- ana
experience has shown that If the athletic commit
tees of Yale and Harvard. together with some
graduates from both universities. could get TO-
gether and make a single agreement for Il meeting
each year In each Of the prominent sports TO eX-
tend over a term of years. hundreds Of dificultes
communications the papers letters from Har-
ward graduates and undergraduates, and ali the
little matters which go to make up these compica-
tlons would be avoided. Harvard's position, there
fore TO decline TO enter into agreement with
Yale this year unless all sports were considered IS
in fact strong one, and one which In time VIII be
proved to have been taken in the interest Oh inter-
collegiate athletics.
The situation between Harvard and Yale during
the summer and this fall up 10 the present time
seems to have been in few words this: immediate
ly after II was decided by the Athletic Committee
of Harvard In April Of last spring that Harvard
should be allowed 10 play football Captain Brewer
wrote 4 communication to Captain Thorne, Of Yale,
inviting him to conference to for the foot
ball game this fall. In reply to this letter Captain
Thorne said that he should be pleased 10 meet
Brewer to arrange for the game. but that Yale men
felt owing to certain criticisms made by Harvard
men prominent in football. that some official ex-
panation should be given for these criticisms before
abe could meet Harvard This letter was referred
nv Captain Brewer to Professor Ames, OF the An
| letc Committee and in reply Professor Ames wrote
| to Captain Thorne that official communica-
| tions or criticisms had been made upon Yale men
Harvard had no explanation to make. and that ne
regretted that Yale men id not care 70 meet mar
ward IN football The matter stood thus until in the
middle of June Yale men in authority were told
! that II Captain Thorne would write and ask Har-
ward to come a meeting to arrange tootpaii
! game the invitation would be accepted at once out
| that nc Ysle had closed the matter In May 1t was
! naturally Impossible for Harvard to take the inlua-
tive in opening negotiations again All through the
! Sumner certain Yale men, graduates and UNDER
! graduates have been endeavoring TO bring ABOUT
this initiative on the part Of Yale. but that mas no"
failed and as II necessary for Harvard 10 MAKE
out her schedule OF games for the fall. she was uh-
able TO walt for the invitation from Yale after oc
,ober II IS therefore practically impossible to-day
that a game be arranged with Yale and It Is PROP
able that ninety men out OF nundred' snyard TnSsner
feel the keenest regret that such Is the Case
One Of the most absurd things that has been done
In amateur athletics In many day IS tne 1wO oo on
ventions which took pace during the summer on one
! Cornell Pennsylvania and Harvard each looking to
q correction In the football rues. each getting out
amsyican footbail Nothing could be Injurious
10 football; itse.f and nothing could be more absurd
hnknE thnh fne tSs ae they y" could decide the matter Here
case whiSh was % bere ,ne tb MANAGERS Of
/ the club have lost opportunity which NOT onLy
rebounds to the dscred Of the club but might nave
been Infinitely to its credit The University Athletic
Tiuh n,ade up as IL is OF Harvard Yale. Princeton
Pennsylvania Cornell and other graduates who were
Interested or took part in varsity athletics when in
co. ege has as one OF its objects the maintenance
/ and publication OF intercollegiate athletics, and II
was Was not only It's opportunity. but distinctly It's
business have prevented these two meetings, 9t t
! which it must have known and TO nave done an !.
could 10 bring about one and only one set OF rules
for the game The result now s that C9rneA ha IN IN
both have to play under the third set OF rules ana
arTanEsH w have to be made the
slty for which IS one OF the very rev things 'ha'
may prevent such an arrangement peing mace
speaking of the possibility of a Harvard-Prnce-
tRe tR. relatons Between Harvard Princeton Six
years ago the memorable game which was played
w over the country, and it deemed wise for the
Harvard decline to pay prnGeiOn to n. In roSi S
ter at the time have long since been graduated from from
tons between Undergraduates have disappeared The
trouble which caused the dispute has been forsotten
bnd boh fTf Prnceton sst ard Harvard men bring about
game Undergraduates OF both universities thought
vsnia' wgii Cornell and Yale games. Harvsrd was n
able to add fourth Of such masnitude as ir nr 1ne
position regarding Harvard At this moment ,1Is ss
OF both universities are anxious to renew the oId
time relations between the universities IN football
mostes wnsn .[ da exist the loss OF the Harvard
game furnishes the opportunity which was waning ~,
duty TO make the proposals Princeton and to
challenge Princeton to Play on ner nsy Hwn 6
| any proposals for a game from Harvard ana 70 ar
| range a match II IL is in any way possible Ihere
ton. in accepting a challenge from Harvard after
] Harvard has been unable to arrange a match with
Yaia would be PLAYING second fiddle TO Yale. This
| ~ not only an unsportsmanlike view 10 take or the
! cose hui IL absurd its face. and both Prince
| ION and Harvard ought to feel that the OPP
| nortunity now furnished for arranging meeting
between Princeton and Harvard Is most fortunate
one and that they should take every advantage or
/ II TO close up the breach between the Two uni
versitles. LEAN H''i'
HARD WEATHER OFF THE CAPE or GOOD HOPE
hnrx lrnr NetlSpN.