The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-06
TIGERS
WILL PLAY
HARVARD
Triple Alliance Said to Be
Under Way Between These
Two and Yale.

The latest development in this season OF
football schedule making is a triple ali-
ance between Harvard, Yale and Prince
ton. A deal of this kind has been rumored
for ON time. but it Is said that at
the recent Yale-Harvard game representa-
tives of all three colleges got together aud
talked the matter over. Yale already plays
Harvard and Princeton, SO ii only remains
for Princeton aud Harvard to schedule a
game and then the deal is completed.
According TO a man who is ON the inside
of such matters, and a graduate of Har-
ward, ms deal Is as good as made. He
states that the formal papers will be signed
very soon, when the dates of the games
will be fixed upon. Princeton and Harvard
have not played each other since 1896.
According to the same authority, II was
suggested at the conference that the deal
be made four-cornered, which would take
in Pennsylvania. This was agreeable on
the whole, but the prejudice of some OF
the Influential Princeton graduates Will
have to be overcome before the scheme
can be put through.
Cornell is DESTROYS of inducing Pennsyl-
vania TO play every other year at ithaca
of course, the annual Thanksgiving Day
game means a lot of money in the Cornell
treasury. but the Ithacans believe, after
the defeat this year, that If Pennsylvania
Is TO be beaten by Cornell the hoodoo must
be broken. The only wa to do that, they
think. is to nave Pennsylvania play az
Ithaca. when they feel sure OF lowering
the colors of the Red and Blue. But IN
order to make up for the deficiency that
would be caused in the treasury by trans
ferring the game every other year TO
Ithaca. Penn would have to arrange an
ether big game for those years when Corr
nell did not visit Philadelphia.
II the proposed deal between Harvard
and Princeton goes through, and 1t ia
promised 1t will, Cornell will likely have to
make n switch in her plans. With Har-
yard. Yale and Princeton all playing two
hard games. none Of them will feel in
clined to take on Cornell, except probably
early in the year, when the game would
be looked upol as a practise game and be
of no general Importance. Consequently,
it could not be expected to increase the
treasury to any great extent.
II the four-cornered deal goes through.
the proposition is made. and IT Is not y
and Penn and Princeton would play. and
then the winners and losers meet In the
following games.
Regarding the Harvard Princeton COM
pact the man mentioned above, who Is
responsible for the information. said:
II am sure Princeton and Harvard have
fixed matters so that q football game be-
tween them Is again an assured thing.
In fact. from what | was told at Cam
bridge. a game between them is as much
of a certainty as that Thanksgiving will
be observed again next year. | talked
with n lot of representative Princeton and
Harvard men and all were In favor OF the
two making up. What was more, they
seemed to think that a radical change in
the schedule of football games would be
made next year. Another suggestion is
that Pennsylvania play Princeton. the
student bodies Of both being strongly in
favor of such a game, the petty opposi-
ton of a few Princeton alumni TO it not
withstanding.
what many college men would like to
see would be the getting together of all
four of the universities. Now, Princeton
was dissatisfied with her game with the
Indians at New York. Tt sinacked too
much of a hippodrome. She is anxious to
get away from that sort of thing. and
what would be more interesting than a
contest on the gridiron between her and
Penn or Harvard?
There has simply got to be a change.
Even Penn men admit that her victory
over Michigan was an empty one and who
can say where Yale stands after her VIC
tories? Let the Big -Four get together
and determine for once and all who really
deserves the supremacy in the East"