Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-12

and Harvard have had trouble over their
eligible lists. The Quakers csntend that
In all this time they have never protested
a single one of Harvards players. in spite
of the fact that the Crimson has played
such professionals as Quits. Matthews.
Clarkson and Maher. The PennsylyanianS
say that they do not pretend to be without
fault themselves and that they are always
ready to consider any evidence which Har-
ward or any other university may present
against Quaker athlete But what angerS
the Quakers is that Harvard should desire
to interpret for Penn the Quakers' own
eligibility code.
If, as now seems probable Penn and
Harvard split, the Quakers will be willing
to give Michigan a game, unless Princeton
should ask for a contest. OF all the eastern
universities Penn Is the only one which has
encouraged meetings between the east and
west. For years the Penn-Chicago game
was an annual affair, and one year the
Quakers played Michigan. A game between
Penn and Michigan would 80 q long way
toward deciding the much-debated dues-
ton of whether the west can hold Its own
with the east in foot fall. II Penn meets
Michigan 1t is likely that the westerners
can have nearly any date they wish on
PENIS schedule. For the past few years
the Michigan team has made a remarkable
record the gridron, due largely to the
work of Fielding Ii. Yost- So far Yost has
never had an opportunity to test his ma
A game next year would attract as much
attention any of the championship
games between the leading universities OF
the east, for both teams will be unusually
strong.
If the plan now being fathered by Prof
Richards, the chairman of the Yale ath-
letic committee. becomes a reality. Yale
VIII set the pace for all the colleges In
the matter of eligibility codes. Prof. Rich
ards thinks that the present one-year resi-
dence rule is not strict enough, and he sug-
gests that 1t be changed to read that no
student who has ever attended another uni
versity shall be allowed to represent Yale.
He contends that Yale athletics should be
for Yale men. II this were accomplished 1t
would eliminate such problems as that Har-
ward and Penn have had to solve over the
Lamson case. 1t Is a fact that half the
eligibility troubles between the colleges of
the east have been over men who came
from other colleges. The student athletes
who have entered the freshman class and
continued their courses to graduation have
never made the slightest trouble. The only
objection to the scheme would be the fact
that II would be unjust to some students
who had previously attended a smaller in
stituton and wished to finish in q large
university which had offered them no In
ducement. But IL college athletes as a
whole could be benefited by the change an
injustice of this kind could be tolerated
If the visit of the English Association
loot bail team is responsible for the tre-
mendous interest now being taken in this
game among the colleges OF the east and
west their visit was surely a success The
new sport has caught on in phenomenaiIy
quick time The University of Pennsyi-
yania was the only college team which met
the Britans, but the Quaker undergraduates
liked the game so we'll that they took 1t. up
at once and now there is big squad Try
Ing for the team which is to represent Penn
this fall and winter
The latest eastern college to organize the
sport is Princeton. The Tigers have taken
1t up with enthusiasm and are now rieeo-
tiating for games with Penn. Harvard.
Hayerford and Columbia. Both Penn and
Princeton are working for the intercollegi-
ate association which is to be formed soon.
II is likely that Easter will see a series Of
games between the colleges which have
teams for the championship of the east.
In the west the game has caught on in
the same way. Chicago, Michigan and Wis
consin have taken the initiative and have
organized teams and are now preparing
for games with each other The game has
received the Endorsement of Coach Yost OF
Michigan and Stage of Chicago. Both of
these coaches declare that it Is splendid
training for the Rugby foot ball game, and
have promised 1t all the encouragement it
get
Cornell has the honor of initiating the
very latest sport in the college world. This
is push ball Although this is not sport
which lends itself to intercollegiate con-
tests it is one which furnishes. lots of
class games have been arranged. At Penn
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