The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-30
A TRIPLE ALLIANCE.
Talk of One Between Yale. Harvard
and Princeton.

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Talk of One Between Yale. Harvard
and Princeton.
| About this time every year consider
able talk of a triple alliance between
Yale, Harvard and Princeton is heard.
The New York Sun yesterday had the
following to say upon the subjects
Yale men are the authority for the
| statement that informal negotiations
have been entered into by Harvard and
| Princeton for a series Of annual foot
ball games beginning next year. The
night before the Yale-Princeton game
number Of prominent Harvard and
Princeton graduates are said to
have had a quiet conference at
one of the clubs in New Fla
ven. They met again, report has
1t, on Saturday night, but on def
mite conclusion was reached. Harvard's
agreement with the University of
Pennsylvania has expired, and Prince
ton is now more anxious than ever be-
fore to take the place of the Quakers
Yale is favorable to such move, and
as the Sun has stated the New Haven
university has constantly advised Har-
ward to take this step. 1t is a fact,
however, that many of HarVards
leading graduates and also number Of
the students favor renewal of the
contract with Old Penn. The relations
between Cambridge and Philadelphia
have been most friendly. 'Pennsy"
has never refused to adhere to the
eligibility rules which We're practically
drawn up by Harvard to govern their
contests, and, barring the little unpleas-
antness which ended the game at
Philadelphia this fall, there never has
been any friction. When Overfleld at
tempted to run away with the ball at
ter Harvard's victory, there was quite
a general mixup. it will be remembered.
Blows were struck and the police were
compelled to quell the disturbance. At
that time Harvard men, who saw the
incident, declared that Old PENIS goose
was cooked Since then, however,
reaction has set in. AT Cambridge the
sentiment prevails that the University
Of Pennsylvania has been unfairly
treated by both Yale and Princeton.
Harvard men have said all along that |
Princeton ought to renew relations with |
the Quakers as they are natural rivals |
from a .geogra phical standpoint But |
such opinions carry no weight at |
Princeton, where there seems to be a |
determination on the part Of the facul- |
ty athletic committee not to permit any |
further relations with the Philadel- |
phians. 1t Is true that within the past |
two weeks representatives of Old Penn
have been trying to secure ~another |
agreement with Harvard. This has |
been done informally through the me-
dation Of prominent graduates of both |
But the intervention Of |
Yale in behalf of Princeton in the
probable cause of the conferences at |
New Haven. What the result of these
confabs will be is a matter of conjec-
ture. Yale men say that Harvard
ought to play Princeton instead of
and that the result of
the games this year show that the Tig-
ers are practically in the same class as
the Crimson. Yale men further say
that the sudden rise of Columbia in
the football world makes it possible to
organize three-cornered league COM
posed of Old Penn, Columbia and Cor
nell, in which event Harvard, Yale and
Princeton can flock by themselves in
big games. Princeton men realize that
If they are to secure any more games
at Harvard within the next five years,
now is the time to pull the wires, and
N doing so the Tigers have strong ally
N Yale. Old Penn, on the other hand,
mas no assistance, but is practically at
he mercy of the Harvard authorities
In case "Pennsy" is turned down, it Is
limited that Princeton will sever rela-
ions with Cornell, and that Yale may
also find her schedule too burdeneome
l. - CAIs, |
which event Philadelphia. New York
md Ithaca will be forced into three
'ornered alliance.