The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-27
ALLIANCE.
Its Advantages
to Colleges.
FOOT BALL RULES,
New Changes Have Been
Beneficial to the Game,

Even though there is little prospect
that itlwill ever be carried through,
those -.wha take q casual interest in
foot ball are attracted by the proposed
triple alliance of Yale, Harvard and
Princeton, which has been an outgrowth
of the present season. To college men
the suggestion is replete with possibil-
ties, and most important of all, the al
lance, We're IL to be contaminated.
would make d simple task to decide
the foot ball championship, year by
year, by some other means than mere
conjecture and comparison. This is the
end toward which all the prime movers
in collegiate sport have been working.
it is not necessary for one to be a close
observer of university foot ball to see
that with a definite object, such as the
final and undisputed right to the cham
pionship in view, interest in the big
games would be increased immeasure-
ably.
The alliance, however, is little more
than q possibility despite the favor
with Which it is regarded in many
quarters. Yale and Princeton are
known TO look upon the proposition
with approval, but HarVard's attitude,
however, IS not so clearly discerned.
When all the other big colleges, except
Cornell, dropped the University of
Pennsylvania from their list of ath-
Ieic acquamtances. Harvard stuck man
fully IT, their Philadelphia rivals, and
met them on tho gridiron annually, At
present there is existing between the
crimson and the Understandable
standing the recent stories that have
been SEM OUT from Cambridge-the best
of Fellowship. ] is not logical to
suppose that Harvard will sanction
any arrangement that leaves the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania out in the cold.
From whatever standpoint the matter
is regarded, it would seem that any
other action on Harvard's part would
he unsportsmanlil1e.
Herein is suggested the keynote to
the entire collegiate situation. Because
of past differences, which q majority of
present students could not explain to
save their lives. Yale and Princeton
shun Pennsylvania. There is no good
reason why Che foot ball relations Of
the universities should not be placed
upon the old basis of friendliness. Sew
eral times il has needed only a. grain
Of common sense, with q spirit of true
craftsmanship, to bring about the hest
result. But obstinacy, in one quarter
4 or another has invariably entered to
interfere. and as a consequence the in
tercolelgiate sQuabble is no nearer a
settlement than it ever was Until the
& disposition to rake up old quarels is
s.ifed it is likely to remain so.
The local arrangement Of the inter-
4 collegiate foot ball campaign would be
found in a league composed OF Yale
i Harvard PRINCETON and. PennsylNanla'
II Cornell also might We'll be Included, Tor
4 by her game with the Quakers on
4 THANKSGIVING day she has shown her
+ ability to keep pace with her Older
/ rivals upon the gridiron. There would
he no need for any team to play more
games than We're good for the physical
welfare OF the players as the cham-
pi0nship series might be divided into
rounds, much as they do in tennis
tournaments, the winner in each meet
ing for final honors. Then the cnam-
pionship would in reality be decided,
and decisively decided. This comparing
scores, which is such faVorite occu-
patton for many, would then be cut
out Of the program altogether
There was time when Princeton
College was not permitted to meet
Pennsylvania in dual contests Of any
nature. There is an interesting story
letic relations between Princeton and
Pennsylvania. 1t came after game one
year at Trenton. A crowd of Philadel-
pri3 Sports wearing the Pennsylvania
* colors, though probably not one of them
had ever seen the inside OF a college
building. attended the game and played
The part of hoodiums. The Princeton
faculty at that time, laborinS under the
a Impression that most of them We're
Quaker men. decided. out of self-re-
specf TO mt a stoD to all further inter
course with Penn for a period of at
least four wears. This meant until all
the students at both Princeton and
Pennsylvania at that time had been
graduated and left college.
This pertod of probation" has now
passed. and there is no good reason, it
"a would annear WHY there should not be
RESUMPTION of athletic competition
between these two universities. Every
body at peI1nsvlva,uia is anxious, for it
naturally. and so is the Princeton fac
uty with the exception of two mem
bers, who are very influential in
Princeton athletics. 1T pretty general
ly Understood that these two men must
be- won o,rat hnfore any dual meeting
T with Payn -, hf. arranged II is an alb
solute shat the captains of Prince
tons athletic 3teans have for the last
4 year been in communication with
& PENIS caDtains regarding the matter
Of scheduling games But as yet the two
members Of The faculty have to be won
over. Let us hone this may be done
Princeton Pennsylvanfa foot ball game
next fan If for no other reason.
The members of the university COM
F mittae ~ footboll ,lilas hnilded even
hett,,. .tba,l tbo3- knew when. at their
conferen[.ee 1ast 1vipter il was decided
Ia ,,dS {,,15 i Mini r. The value of a
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