Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-19
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They should have nothing to do with ath-
letics."
The east never felt so much uncertainty
regarding the coming year in foot ball as
ii does just now. Not only Is there I'M
certainty regarding the changes in the
rules, which are virtually sure to be made
this winter, but the big universities do not
know whom they will meet In 1906. Har-
ward and Pennsylvania are still at cd Is
over the recent eligibility controversy Be
fore the game began 1t was positively de-
clared that Harvard would drop Penn
after this year, and to this end Harvard
requested that the present agreement be-
tween the universities be abrogated after
January, 1906. PENIS decisive victory,
however, has put a new aspect on the Sls-
uation. Now that the Quakers have won
twice in succession they are in better
position to dictate than is the Crimson. The
Red and Blue Is anxious to resume rela-
tiCns with Princeton in foot ball, and with
peace established in base ball it is likely
that foot ball will also be played by the
Tigers and QuakerS. Penn Is so angry
over Harvards annual protests and with
drawals that she would drop Harvard i'm
minute IL Princeton could be substituted.
There is also talk that Penn and Cornell
will break after this year. Penn says that
the 1thacans have been very unfriendly
within the last few years and they may be
dropped for Michigan, since the Wolverines
want a game badly. Thus Penn may be
playing Harvard and Princeton next year,
or Princeton and Michigan. Penn will still
Play the Columbia eleven. for the PhiladeI-
phians and New Workers have stood to-
gether for the last six years.
f.
Yale men are complaining at the hard
ships their eleven must endure to play
both Princeton and Harvard in one week.
Several years ago the Tigers were played
two weeks before the end of the season
which gave Yale plenty of time to recupe-
rate for the Crimson. But Princeton has
objected to being placed any earlier on the
schedule. so Yale has given in and played
both. thereby risking a double defeat. IL
Princeton and Penn could meet on Thanks
giving day Yale could play the Tigers two
weeks before Harvard and not be over
worked.
Cornell is still trying to arrange game
with Harvard for next year. but this plan
is not meeting with much success. The
Crimson is friendly enough to Cornell, but
knows that the series would not be finan-
cial success. The location Of Cornell in
the small town of Ithaca, is enough to
make Harvard refuse to play anywhere
but In Cambridge, and the game there
would not attract enough people to make
it pay. The Ithacans, by going to Phila
delphia every year to play Penn on Thanks
giving day, make enough money to pay
cordingly, they are most anxious to retain
this place on PENIS schedule. Penn mas
won so easily in the last few years that
Cornell has not been drawing many peo-
pie as heretofore. Accordingly, the Itha
cans are doing everything in their power
to bring down a better team this year and
thus insure the Thanksgiving day date.
Finally, it Is likely that Columbia will be
minus a game with either Princeton or
Yale next year. Both the Tigers and the
Ellis accuse the New Workers of purposely
crippling their players, and threaten to
drop them in consequence.
Foot ball critics will have trouble this
year in placing the Swarthmore College
eleven. The Swarthmore team has expe-
rienced just one defeat this season. and
that was at the hands of Pennsylvania,
which beat the suburbanltes IL to 4.
Swarthmore. on the other hand, beat Cor
nell IA to o, Lafayette q to 0 and An
papolis to 5. From one of the smallest
of the minor colleges Swarthmore mas
jumped lin two years to the front rank,
and Is now suitable opponent for any
one Of the big six" In considering
Swarthmore's strength 1t must be remem-
bcred that the latter team played its first
game of the year against Penn while the
Red and Blue was playing its third con-
test. Two weeks ago Lafayette held Penn
to a tie score of to o, and in view of this
Swarthmore'5 crushing victory over Lafay-
being coached by George Brooke, who was
PENIS greatest fullback of a decade ago.
Only one criticism is made against Swarth-
more, and that Is their refusal to make or
abide by eligibility rules. On November %
Swarthmore and Wesleyan will clash, and
it looks like a victory for the Pennsylva-
mans.
The Brown conference committee, which
is made up of representatives from each
of the big eastern universities, with the
exception of Yale Is much interested In the
experiment being made by the big nine'
of the middle west In barring from athletics
all freshmen until they have completed In
good standing one semester or term. The
prime object of this rule was to prevent
the foot ball authorities from inducing star
sehoolboy athletes to matriculate for the
purpose of playing foot ball. The num-
Der of star freshman players who entered
college and then falling to pass In their
studies. dropped out of college became such
a scandal that some such radical step was
necessary: The authorities believed that
men should go to college to study. and felt
that If man succeeded In passing on the
first half of his work he was the right kind
of man. The success of the new rule has
been greater than the western men had
dared hope for. and as a result western
athletics have been kept remarkably clean
this year.
In the east the nearest approach to q
rule of this kind is that whereby men who
have competed on other college teams must
serve one year of probation before they are
eligible. This rule, however, Is not SO far
reaching as that In the west and does not
get at the root of the evfl. Eastern men
have been watching the success OF the In
novation in the west. and It Is gaining new
advocates among eastern men. who believe
that something radical viii have to be done
to correct the abuses.