The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-29
FOOTBALL SEASON FRIENDLY, LITTLE lLL-FEELING Yale Gained Nothing by Delay Between Halves of Prince
 ton Game.

Few football seasons have gone on record with so little rhetorical conflict after the games were over as this one, says the Yale Alumni Weekly. A higher standard of college amateur sportsmanship has had good deal to do with this, as has also the undeniable fact that the personnel of the so-called "big teams has been more than ever above criticism. The saner view of everybody connected with the sport have had their share also in this happy condition. It is the more worthy of remark, therefore, that here and there cog has slipped in the harmony machine and that some first class newspapers have allowed their athletic writers-both staff and correspondence ito generate a good deal of steam where 1t wasn't necessary or even ad- visable. For instance, we had only one feeling which we could name when we read that Mr. Roper of Princeton had been assisting in the coaching of the Harvard eleven. That feeling was merely a comfortable refusal to believe in the worldwide importance of the fact even if it happened to be true. Mir, Roper disobeved no social or police code when he suggested possible de- lenses to Harvard against the Yale att tack-if he did--nor would we have felt like taking the matter to The Hague tribunal If his advice had turned the tables and helped Harvard to win. The incident, if 1t assisted toward a Har- vard- Princeton sympathy that will lead to games between the two, could only be highly agreeable to Yale men.
 We have had much the same feeling
 LOT lack of feeling-about the mon strous iniquity of the Yale teams late ness in appearing for the second half of tn Princeton game. Yale was late from 6 to 10 minutes late, Referee Thompson said 4-and 1t was unfartu- nate that she was. It was uninten- charges that have been somewhat freely circulated It looked bad, but 1t wasn't. The team had been stunned at the brilliance of the Princeton at- tack and sat around in their quarters like dummies untouched by clock or timetable Instead of deliberately us- ing extra time to prepare for the sec- ond half-as has been oourteously sug- gested-the team was actually waiting during the last five minutes for some- thing to happen. Twice Captain Big low broke the silence and started to go out. when he did go out he was late But Yale had gained nothing by the delay and no Yale man can believe that any advantage was sought, by the team or coaches, through such a pue- rifle method. The timers business, by the rules, is to see that some notihca. tion is sent to the waiting eleven Or this occasion no such notice was re- ceived by Yale. That's all there was to the incident, Two score and more of well known university players, now graduates of many institutions, have emphatically stated since the occur renee that they had never gone on the field until called If the football conn mttee have anything to say about the matter at all this winter the most sensible thing they can decide to dc will be to send a copy of the rules to timers. The trouble here again was not from the incident itself but from the construction put upon it by people who I if they don't themselves set the world on Are occasionally burst into flame from other peoples conflagrations.