The sun., 1896-10-24
SPORT.
FIXTURE or 1ntereoi,erlato Football.


To THE EDITOR OF THE sun Sir: What is TO be tho
future OF intercoeR Riae footbnli7 VIII tho oxptra-
on this year of the terms OF the agreements under
which Yale and Princeton, Harvard and Princeton,
and Harvard and University Of PennsyIvani meet,
and the burying OF the Harvard Yale hatchet (which
interment seems to be an assured fact bring about
more satisfactory state of AFFAIRS?
Many OF the prominent football writer's, including
Mr. whitney, have advocated tie formation OF a four
cornered league between Yale. Princeton, Harvard,
and University of Pennsylvania and this would GER
tainly to be tho most satisfactory and logical
solution OF tho problem, II the preservation ana
further development OF tho game and not the pres
ervation of III feeling and the DEVELOPMENT OF petty
unsportsmanlike exclusive spirit is the end In view
with the authorities OF the institutions named.
Let us look for moment at the obstacles" to get
ting together.
The rupture OF the relations between Ya,o and
Harvard was the result OF ordinations and recrim
nations interchanged between athletic advisers and
others after tho game at Springfield two years ago
The relations between Yale and Princeton are of
longer unbroken standing and may therefore bo set
down a more cordial than those between any other
colleges but they too. have been subject to strains
The relations between Yale and University of Penn.
sylvana were, OF OF different chs
as Yale competed with Pennsylvania, as she does
with other institutions OF low order OF football ao
ity merely for practice The fact that both belonged
to the intercollegiate Football Association lent thin
and up to 1899, very thin, semblance OF Importance
the competition. About that tme Yale Prince
made np eneasvey Of students In the eoeEae oe Or
academic departments OF tho several universities.
ory ana Vas just as much entitled to her view as the
OF tmT @ Se
baseball Held at New Haven Is said have aggravated
The present relation. between Haryard and Pr,nce-
on % are % sa1 no os Ss. @ of m trY 10 n has
throw over" univsrs'.y yy,, e Penn'yyania with
Two years ago the authorities at Princeton an.
te SO acmsG beer sna
to suspend athletic intercourse until chat feeling
to which The make constant
1ad on the s% saes asrsf @hc
terestng llround competition In tclass football
the game want 70 sec. Tnere surely great srev.
Ss h sTaye nos s re csmsr s % ss
The tolio%lnE facts must be acknoM Mlsdsed by all:
other classes so nearly on an equality Us to leave
& That these four teams represent the four most
prominent mniverslties OF IN. nation.
s% OF The S" asf
the see 'ss 81 hssS dnr nu
tons are aye to The merits & Of The Sass they win
s6.li hereafter do fair: open. manly battle for an
actual ms and TnSn S15ns hal have
else who does likewise, fairly ana squarely. be wei
IL seems 70 1aye been H. taken for granted for somo
nai az ae M 1@ snSs and
come strong insnuat,ons 81 from Princeton tlat the
out The dual league course right but the trpie
League wopd be 's!sal az and nnn. Illogical be-
Princeton. which does not apply NaIrne.s compels
nsarer Harvard And Yale than tnlveT.i,y Of Penn
well and widely known as Princeton. and is mos
BAL eScelcnce Counting the defeat or aa as 'Gi the
date Of p.nnsy,vagias rise into the nrst rank We
.y!rania the credit for her two victories out OF the
itis unjust t" the three would. be leaguers them
selves 10 ths University of PENNSYLVANIA. 10 the sport
the three woud.Ge lGaggers "eeau.e in view Of the
s selves w in false position in exciuaias her tHe7 To
pennsylvania: ece"d.s !, denies her The well,
Gs gaOc "i nsc,q:e rvs they ae
tsif because ths !itenes. OF the sp rt mani Tested
s The ga Eas nenss pSren,nS na ma de,sl9Emsn5
il 70 ionser p, argued tha, Pennsylvan,a's rise
unSnown defeat OF nnoroken victory. erectually
essqses S the of Psnnsy sye
van'as teams may hay. been and there Is seldom
nrIshnorhcoh, any one who maintains that such a
81 IN t@ past
sog Of the s5n,sss and aTy On such
AS nr as football !; conGerned it seems to That
Marvard ami Prnceto University OF PennsyIvania
ng ami INC 9sss IL me sSsh
near as Is possible TO come to deciding the real
white that brtwren the losers would necessarily
decide anything IL would certainly afford q grand
exhibition of football too.
one thing is sure anything be, league or no
league. Harvard AMI Yale VIII Insist upon meeting
each other annually, and therefore with one four
a4 ss Toqa have
eithcr OF them In nnn game. and 10 the extent OF
giving up certain games with both for the necessity
OF earning the right 10 meet one OF them. she
would ar to ~, be G;Hr by the In
between Harvard and Yale. with provision FOR
the second league and nnal champ 'onship contest
abor" suggested hoth Harvard and Yale wumld surely
insist making their game The game the nj game
season. and II Princeton played both i'm iyers
ties and this would probably apply with EQUAL force
tn" projected triple eague), she would he compelled
70 play he two game very ncnr together. neither
Halc Harvard would play her too near their nnal
game. and neither would be willing to risk meeting
her too early in the before their teams had
well rounded into shape.
would II not seem hes; then all things considered.
let h. cones (Such they hre) be- byRones sink all
prctudCrs, md make some such arrangement rs IL
herein suggested The more complete the victory
the greater number of first class teams vanon!shcd
the greater glory for the victor. JERSEY JUSTICE"
BERLIN, y. j.. Oct II.