New-York tribune., 1903-03-08
UNANIMOUS FOR GAME.
Both HarUGrd and Pale Oppose Pro
-- fessor Hollis.
EBY TELEGRAPH 10 THE TRIBUNE. ]

Cambridge, Mass, March 7.-Undergrsduate
spirit and feeling are entirely opposed to the
proposition OF Professor Hollis to abandon. the
annual football contest with Yale. The Yale
game is the one great test Of the season for
which all the other games are merely prepara-
tory. Yale is the traditional and most natural
rival OF Harvard. and undergraduate sentiment
Is firmly against any idea Of breaking of the
relation
There is. however. a general feeling among
the undergraduates that Professor Hollis's crid-
cIsm OF some OF the features Of the game Is
fully justified, but it is not believed that the
abandonment OF the Yale game is the proper
remedy. The football players themselves say
that such policy would rob the sport Of half
its Interest and mean lamentable decline IN
the game Securing the best sub-freshman
material by assiduous proselyting among the
preparatory schools is a practice which is con-
demned In unmeasured terms in Cambridge,
and, while it is generally hoped that such prac-
tices may be done away with. the proposition TO
accomplish it by giving up the great game OF
the year is met with condemnation on every
hand.
While Professor Hollis is chairman Of the
Harvard Athletic Committee his article in The
Harvard Graduates Magazine" is merely the
expression Of his personal opinion, and Is not
an Official statement of the attitude OF the COM
mittee q whole.
New-Haven, Conn. March NATURALLY the
Graduates Magazine" have been the topic Of
discussion at Yale to-day. without exception
Yale undergraduates, graduates and faculty
members who are interested in the athletic
-ivaIries Of the two universities were outspoken
in their establishment that Harvard official
should publish such views at this time when
both sides are making last attempt to settle
their difficulties and this was mingled with
considerab bIe high feeling against the aninad-
versions On the Yale football game. One Yale
professor. when asked for his opinion said
that Professor HolIis's opinions on athletic
questions are not worthy Of serious considera-
ton.
Professor William Lyon Phelps, who Is closely
in touch with undergraduate activities at Yale
said tonight:
Professor Hollis is not as I understand a college
z-aduate himself and he doesn't understaTo unoeE-
graduate college sentiment u Is RiIe R SJTIoIg,afic
-sSyT of Them has been given the PUBLIC,
rToFseeo- Hollis should express in the most public
manner opinions which. II they should prevail
would make athletic conferences unnecessary.
Among the Yale undergraduates even stronger
feelings were expressed than by faculty mem
hers Alan Fox manager Of the Yale footDaIl
team, said:
There is rot the slightest question and there mas
not been as to further football games WIZ aE+
the game Will be dropped. Both universities want
il and the entire undergraduate oooles az tS 19iS
and harvard pafessar are a Hollis does not represent
the sane undergraduate sehtll11enliL &c last
preSseq AZ ..I5@,srd Crimson editor who said
hat ali Harvard men were unanlnqns ID oeoIIs eIITes
o continue present EeaLohSi S Eofessor Hollis the
games will go on