The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-07

our students would take the sport with
other teams more In the spirit Of fun
The article was the sole subject Of dis
cunsion among the undergraduates around
college tonight, and they were unani.
tse bs AGAINST IN the opinions
ooes not Tor minute want to see the games
with Yale discontinued in any one branch
OF sports, most OF all football. The stu
dents took marked exception to many
Q, the assertions made by Prof. Hollis.
ihey do not think that the game Is demoral-
izng. or that II Is deteriorating Some Of
the men would like TO see a more open game
ana certain other reforms put into practice,
but not TO the extent Of breaking football
relations with their old friend Yale.
number OF men connected with foot
ball were seen by the correspondent Of
The SUN tonight and they were unani-
mously in favor OF continuing the game
with Yale and that the game is not de-
tero,riating Some Of the opinions were
Head Coach Farley OF last falls eleven
when asked whether or not the Yale game
would be given up said:
As to tnat, anyDody's guess Is as good
as anybody else's. Personally ! should
lations with Yale discontinued. The two
colleges are natural rivals, and their game
Is the most important Of the season. II,
as Prof. Hollis has said, the spirit is moving
In the right direction. why stop itP j do
not think that the game Is on the downward
Capt Carl Marshall Of the eleven for next
fall, when seen at his room, said:
III you take away the Yale game, you
will take away half Of the interest in the
Yale are the most natural athletic rivals in
the field. The fact that the game is pro.
gressing makes 1t all the more beneficial
to the men in 1t. as 1t develops a higher
intelligence. 1t quicker the wits and keeps
nothing will come Of the talk to break foot
ball relations with Yale
Bob Herman, captain Of the 'o7 eleven,
said.
Most emphstically the game is not de-
ness. and that is half the whole thing. If
you are going to do anything, do it for all
the thing is worth. Without the Yale
game the football season Is nothing"
w. c. Clark. president Of the Hdrrdrd
Cr,mson for the first half OF this year, a man
who has followed college football very
cloeely for the past four years, said:
Il do think that the game needs to be
reformed. but to abolish the Yale game is
not the way to go about 1t. The Yale game
a racecourse celebration, such as IL Is at
present. / think the way to do that is TO
limit the attendance to undergraduates
and graduates Of the college,
New HAVEN. Conn, March o'-Yale
athletic leaders and Leading alumni who
Of the Yale committee that has been in
conference with Harvard for several months
trying to fix up an athletic agreement be-
tween the two universities and to arrange
said tonight. when told that Prof. Hollis
in a public statement favored giving up
| the Harvard-Yale football game, that II
was very unfortunate and certainly very
inopportune for Prof Hollis to give pub
licity to such views just now.
One Of these Yale leaders in athletics and
very close to the Yale corporation said
| further: Prof. Hollis's statement will not.
| in my judgment and in the opinion OF other
Yale men, Interfere with the athletic agree
| by the representatives Of the two uni
versities. Think that he Is talking through
his hat. l don't think that Prof. Hollis
represents the real Harvard sentiment.
either Of the undergradua body or the
alumni. In the first place he is not a
| Harvard man. He is an Annapolis man
| and has endeavored to introduce a military
| disposition and something of the dictator
| into the Harvard system OF athletics he
| does not understand the university side
| Of athletics, and from what we learn from
| some OF the Harvard men he is not in really
| close touch with the Harvard sentiment.
yale wants to keep on playing foot.
ball with Harvard and also keep up all
| the other athletic reMtlons tnat exist TO-
day. I guess Harvard understands where
Yale stands on this matter. II is said that
at some OF the meetings between the Yale
| and Harvard committees to fix up the
| athletic agreement, Prof. Hollis limited
at this same thing that has just come from
| his pen, and we are not much surprised over
| the statement. He was told at those con-
| ferences that he ought to be a bit more
i careful and that he might regret his talk
about cutting of the Yale Harvard game.
| As a matter Of fact there has been so
| much Of this unfortunate talk from the
Harvard territory that Yale in making up
\ it's football schedule for the future, has
really taken into consideration the pos
sibiity OF not playing game with Harvard.
| yale does not want TO stop playing
football with Harvard, and If there is a
break il will be due to just such talk as
| that credited to Prof. Hollis We know
| how the conservative element in the two
universities feel on this question and /
| think that element will prevail
| Walter Camp. Yale's athletic director.
was In New York tonight. The Rev.
Arson Phelps Stokes. Jr.. Henry B. Sar-
gent and other member OF the conferer ce
COMMITTEES with Harvard. declined TO dis
cuss Prof. Hollis's statement for pubica-
ton.