The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-19
WILL BE NO CHAMPION.
Football Enthusiasts Not Satisfied
With Schedules.
No Games VIII BE Contcsted-Accusa-
tion Of Cowardice.


season is complete until the championship
has been decided are doomed TO disappoint-
ment this year the same as last Games
that will give any team the right TO claim
the championship this year will not DO
played. Still there will be lots Of teams TO
claim IL both east and west. Last year
there was western championship team
Michigan, according 70 tho records and tho
Judgment of football pcople-but there
was no eastern champion. This year there
will be no champion east or west unless
the schedules are changed. IL seems i'm
possible for the average college football
team manager 10 make a schedule that Is
satisfactory. There are great difficulties,
of course, but college men arc often ac-
cused of "a cowardly spirit that would not
be tolerated In other people IL one col
legc team manager thinks a certain other
college team is better than his own, that
certain other team is usually hot found ON
his schedule.
The Yale Pennsylvania negotiations,
which recently ended without the arrange
ment Of meeting for the teams Of those
two colleges, furnishes an instance
The Yale team this year is acknowledged
by Yalo people generally to be weaker
than Yale tearns usually are. The Penn
sylvania team is said by the people who
have seen iC 10 be one of the strongest the
Institution ever had. Pennsylvania ohal-
lenged Yale to game of football, and
Yale, having only one big college game
for the year--that with Princeton--de-
clincd TO accept. Pennsylvania people
say, of course, that Yales managers refuse
to play because they are afraid OF being
beaten.
Yales only reply Is that "there are con-
ditions on account of which IL would be
undesirable To deviate from the existing ar
rangcnionts of our schedule" These ICON
ditions' are, OF course that Yale wants TO
be in a position next year 60 form dual
athletic alliance with Harvard should
Harvard then decide that it has punished
and excluded Yale enough, or nt least to
60 into league that shall include no more
than Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
If Yale defeats Princeton in New York
on Noy. 2i, Yale supporters will claim the
championship for the team, Even Lafayette
will be in position 10 dispute the claim this
year, however, inasmuch az its team has
proved itself 10 be the equal of tho Tigers
Tho eastern championship this year,
though, is out OF the question. The big
four do not get enough together. Yale
will meet only Princeton, and Princeton
only Yale and Harvard Pennsylvania,
the strongest team of the lot last year, and
probably the strongest this year as well
will meet only Harvard 1t might be pos
sihlc for Cornell or Lafayette to establish
claim to the championship, as each Of
them will play three OF the "b'g four"
teams, but it is hardly probable. that either
of those eleycns viii win more than ono
II any, of tho gGmos.
In the west Minnesota accuses the Uni-
versity of Chicago team Of being afraid TO
arrange game, Minnesota won in the
match last year. Both Northwestern and
Wisconsin accuse Michigan of being afraid
to meet them, but the accusation Is hardly
true. 1t was made last year by the mana
gers of the same teams, and then IL GER
tainly was not true Northwestern de-
clined an Offer of IA game at the only time
when IL was reasonable and possible for
Michigan TO offer It, Michigan also offered
Wisconsin game in Detroit, but the Badg-
ers refused to 40 there Miohigan's man
ayers claim that their team played last on
Wisconsin's field
Still, tho Michigan schedule this year Is
not satisfactory or interesting. IL includes
games with two teams that usually figure
in western ehampionships-Chicago and
Minnesota--but has no date with Illirois,
Wisconsin or Northwestern The Wolver-
enes, however, havo game with Lohigh
and another with tho University of Ne
braska team, which is not accounted "a
factor In western championships.
The big western games, therefore, are
not so arranged that when they are played
any one can be satisfied as TO which uni
yersity has the best team. Chicago will
play Michigan. Northwestern, Illinois and
Northwestern will play Chi
cago, Illinois and Wisconsin, Illinois will
play Chicago, Northwestern, Purdue and
Wisconsin; Wisconsin Will play Chicago,
Northwestern, Minnesota ana Illinois;
Minnesota will pay Purdue, Wisconsin
and Michigan, and Michigan will play as
stated above. When ali tho games are
over, though, thoro will probably be two
or three teams claiming the championship,
with nothing Ia the records To dssprOyo the
claims Of any OF thonl
Whatever may be the cause OF blanch-
nc, tn. hair msy be restored 20 its
original color nv tho use of tfat potent