New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-01
YALE,S SCHEDULE HELD.
Waiting to Hear from H@gard Be
fore Naming Football Dates.

New Haven March 3l-Yale closed for her
Easter vacation without any word being received
from Harvard relative 10 athletic me- cts after next
June. when the school year ends. Yale has held
hack her football schedule expecting 10 hear from
Harvard The list OF games for another season is
annually announced before Easter Yale viii cor
tinue 10 hold back the schedule. believing that
word viii come soon from the. Crimson. for in
formal assurances have been made in private cor
respondence from prominent Harvard men that If
Harvard has any football games nest fall one
with Yale viii be played
Outside of the match with Harvard. the last
date on the Yale schedule filled last week
when Washington and Jefferson College was taken
on for the first time. The match with this eleven
was set for November ?. the usual game given to
West Point II is understood that the military
cadets win get Saturday November g. this year.
No date viii be reserved for Columbia. despite the
fact that the sport is TO be revived at that uni
versity. Even il Columbia supports an eleven
Yale viii not meet her on tho gridiron next fall.
Another university which wifi be cut of the Yale
schedule for fall will be Penn State.
The game with this eleven was the toughest Yale
forced 10 play last fall
Yale will positively meet Western university
the coming fall The faculty has set its foot down
firmly on this point, irrespective Of Harvard's
action in meeting Yale. Some CT the members Of
the faculty still firm in their belief that II no
game with Harvard is played the eleven should
ne ordered TO WIND up us season WIN the Itiee
ton match and arrange 40 game Tor the last sat
with Harvard These professors think thai Yale $
schedule is TOO long already. They favor com
pelling the team 10 play Harvard and Princeton
in alternate years only, or else action by 1ale
which should result in favor Of dropping one or
the other of her great rivals Captain Biglow
of the Yale eleven says that he will not follow the
He announctd before he left here for his Easter
vacation thai as soon as Yale reopens the coming
week spring practice viii begin. He and Head
Coach Billy Knox, fullback last season, VIII be IN
charge, and Captain sammy Morse OF the eleven
last fall viii assist.
oarsmen just they began their Easter work on
the harbor. He has slightly reorganized the crew,
with Coach John Kennedy, ana II IS possible lnat
more changes will follow. Instead of Hoppln. VINO
has been rowing at No. g. Howe has received
trail Howe was on the freshman eight last year,
rowing No. s. Dunkle. who was No. z in the fresh
shell, has been placed in Rockweils seal at
bow. Rockwells less has been severe blow TO the
ing from what thought 10 be munps. His
disease found TO be appendicitis and oper-
alton has been performed He VIII he unable to
row This season. Rockwell was bow for the
freshmen last year.
Captain Robert Noyes 40. s. who resigned be-
cause of pOOs physical condition, has declined 40
act regular coach. but he will give Captain Ide
all the assistance possible. Yale men have heard in
formally from Princeton that the Tigers intend 10
come 10 New London TO instead OF going TO
the Poughkee0sie regatta. There has been no off,
cial correspondence among the Yale navy and
between Yale and Princeton. undergraduates il is
taken for granted that the Tigers get a
crew u viii ask for admission 10 the Yale-Harvard
regatta at New London.
Yale does not fear that Princeton viii he a win
ming competitor on the water for several wears '.T
takes I'VE years 10 make finished oarssnan said
Coach Kennedy To-day. The impossiliIifv ~ Great
ms finished oaTs,nen inside of al least two or three
years VIII probably keep Princaton's crev,s 10 oil
In the big -egattas for a shor. line n W DsaSA
orally believed At Vale that in 1893 Princeton -,,i
nave az teast Two crews az New London in fhe
Is Tot ideal for three crews bli vale Sora. ~
harvard nein some excellent races there in 1895