Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-14
Dartmouth May Take the
Place Of Columbia.
HAS HADA GOOD RECORD
GAME MAY RETURN
TO FRANKLIN FIELD.
Stands to Be Enlarged-Causes for Dis
satisfaction at Princeton-Proposed
Reduction Of Price of Tickets.

The big Six OF the eastern universities
is no more This sextet has been broken
up by the abolition of foot ball at Columbia.
1t is true that Columbia will still maintain
teams in the other branches of athletics,
but 1t was Columbias position In foot ball
two and three years ago that gave the New
Workers membership in the Big Six Un-
less Columbia gets back into the fold in a
hurry she will find her place taken by some
such college as Dartmouth, Lafayette or
Swarthmore. 1t is Of course possible that
with the changes to be made In the game
Columbias faculty will heed the petition OF
her undergraduates and restore the game
At any rate, even If Columbia does re-es-
tablish foot ball she will find her position
in the intercollegiate world seriously weak
ened. All Of the big eevens will begin in
the course of a few weeks to arrange their
schedules for 1906 During the last sea-
son Columbia played games with Princeton,
PENNSYLVANIA, Yale and Cornell, the only
member of the Big Six which played
four other members. Now all of these in
situations which met Columbia will nave
to provide for big games to take their
places To do this satisfactorily IL Is not
unlikely that several of them Will turn 10
Dartmouth. Dartmouth has proven by her
consistent record of the last three years
that she is stronger than Cornell and about
ON a parity with Princeton, pennsylvania
and Harvard. 1t Is certain that Dartmouth
will have no trouble in filling UP her foot
ball schedule next year
Effect of Columbia's Withdrawal.
There Is also possibility that Columbias
withdrawal will bring together either Penn
sylvania and Princeton or Pennsylvania
and Yale. Pennsylvania has been on the
outs with Princeton and Yale for nearly ten
years The Tigers and Quakers are now
more friendly than they have ever been and
it may be that Princetons necessity OF get
ting another big game will induce her to
bury the Ratchet and resume foot ball re-
lations with the Red and Blue, their near
est rivals. If Princeton and Penn make up,
as they now have an opportunity, the IL
gers would probably be given the Thanks
giving day date. And If the two teams
come together the pennsylvania manage
ment would begin the construction of addi-
tional stands for the throng this game
would attract would equal lie $4,000 crowd
which saw Harvard and Yale clash yale,
not being in PENIS territory, there is less
likelihood of meeting between them imam
between Penn and Princeton.
NAV Return to Franklin Field.
The poor success which Princeton had in
handling the crowd that went to the New
Jersey town to see the annual foot ball
game between West Point and Annapolis
has, it is asserted, made 1t almost GER
tainty that the game will be returned to
Franklin Field, Philadelphia. the grounds
of the University of Pennsylvania. Prince
ton and the Pennsylvania railroad found
themselves totally unable to handle the
crowd last Saturday and hardly one of the
immense throng had kind word TO say OF
the arrangements. 1t was not the fault OF
Gov flny- n a
best they could do to overcome the handl-
caps they had to contend with
Stands to Be Enlarged.
1t is not unlikely that the management
of the game will request the use Of Frank
lin Field next year. The Pennsylvania au-
thorities do not feel any resentment over
the transference of the game. for 1t has
merely entaiIed lot of work and no glory.
but they are willing to give their field If
the academies want it. AS more people
will see the game at Philadelphia than at
Princeton, 1t would probably compel the
Quaker management to increase the seat
ing capacity of its field. This could readily
be done by the construction of a tempo
rary stand east of the gymnasium and the
building of half dozen rows Of seats as an
extension to the north and south stands.
In this way the stadium could be made TO
seat 1000 people with ease. Last year
Franklin Field was filled to overlooking on
two occasions these being the Harvard and
Indian games. 1t will be necessary for
Pennsylvania to increase the seating capac-
ity ANYWAY, and with it accomplished the
Army Navy people would probably ask
for It.
Changing the Rules.
The rules will be considerably changed
before next year. All of the universities
with representative on the committee have
committed themselves to reforms. With the
rules changed Columbia will have an ex-
cuse for taking up the game again, and be-
cause of its great popularity it IS believed
hat both Columbia and New York Uni
Versity will return to the fold.
The one great difficulty in reforming the
game is the impossibility of knowing what
heir effect will be when put in operation.
The best way to overcome this difficulty is
for the committee to try its new rules be-
fore finally adopting them. This could be
done in the spring when preliminary foot
ball practice is held. There would be no
difficulty in getting some of the big teams
20 try out the new rules, with the committee
IN hand to direct the experiment. In this
way the committee could tell in short order
whether or not a new play was practicable,
S 1t is now nothing Is known about the
usefulness of changes until the following
Tall, when 1t is too late to make amend
ments.
Reducing Price Of Tickets.
Eastern university men are very much
Interested in the action of the conference
colleges of the middle west In deciding that
fifty cents is enough to charge for the best
reserved seats at a foot ball game. The
anne question has agitated the fasteners,
5ut instead of making the charge small
possible they have maintained 1t as high
as the public will pay. To them the stand
AIKEN by the western men is illogical. As
t Is now the entire seating capacity of
he stadiums at Harvard, Pennsylvania,
Yale and Princeton Is taxed to the utmost
1T all their championship games, the uni
form rate of admission being 500 per seat,
no matter in what section of the stand 1t
$ located. The only exception to this is
ne student body, whose members are ad-
nitted at a reduced rate season tickets
or athletic association books.