Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-09
GIVE UP HOPE
OF GAME
NO CHANCE FoR TIGERS AND
oUAKERs THIS YEAR
Princeton inundated by Thought of
Possible Defeat and Students Are
Satisfied with Present Ar
rangement of Schedule

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. S.--There is
little chance of Pennsylvania and
Princeton meeting on the football field
this year. Penn has signed up a two
year engagement with Michigan, and
Princeton is flirting with Harvard.
Princeton would and would not like to
play Pennsylvania, but Princeton would
like to meet Harvard, but Harvard Is
Mesquite sure of herself, and SO mat
tiers stand.
However, Pennsylvania and Prince
ton are reaching the handshaking stage
and almost any year there is likely 10
be a kiss and make up act pulled oil.
The selection OF John Minds as chair
man of the football committee in place
of George McFadden, resigned, will not
retard the oneoming meeting between
Penn and Princeton. Minds is popular
and has many friends at Princeton, be-
sides being a practical football man
with wide experience as a player and
official.
Princeton's undergraduates and many
of the alumni would like very much to
see an alliance formed with Pennsylva-
mia, but one of the stumbling blocks In
the way of such deal has to do with
the matter of policy Princeton, it is
said, is not unwise to the fact that to
play Pennsylvania and be defeated
would probably do her more injury
than she would derive good from the
game, even in case of victory.
In Same Territory
Penn and Princeton, being located in
the same part of the country, naturally
draw largely upon the same localities
for their students. Pennsylvania, OF
course, by reason of her far-famed
schools of medicine and dentistry, at
tracts students from the distant points,
which Princeton does not, but in the
purely collegiate courses there is more
or less keen competition in the securing
of students.
Statistics show that Princeton has
fallen off rather than advanced proper
tionally in the matriculation OF stu
dents with the passing of years. While
Pennsylvania has shown in recent
years a marked increase. So it would
be with some fear that Princeton would
arrange football game with Pennsyl-
yania. Defeat would mean a blow TO
her athletic prestige. and hence might
turn prospective students to some other
college. Just at this time, as a matter
of policy. Princeton does not consider
1t advisable to tic up with Pennsylva-
MIA
The prospects of the championship
basketball team at Pennsylvania are
very bright. and II the Quaker five pulls
together as well as it did on the vest
ern trip there is no reason why Penn
should not come out victorious at the
end of the season. This years team
has on II four of last years crack play
ers. Fitzpatrick, Kiefaber, Keinath and
McCrudden, and besides these they
have three new men, McNichol Speer
and Summer, who are improving with
every game.
Loses Only Two
Out of ten games that have been
played up to this date, Penn has won
eight of them and lost only two, these
two being in the part of the season be-
fore the team was properly NODDED
together. on the western trip six
games were played and all of them
resulted in victories for Penn, which
was welcomed by the largest crowds
that have ever turned out TO see Penn
play in tho west,
At Johnstown there was an attend
ance at the game OF more than $500:
at Pittsburg, over 1900. and at Detroit
over 5000 enthusiastic followers of the
game was Penn victorious. The re-
naming games to be played are as fol-
lows: ON January %, Dartmouth at
Philadelphia; January %, Yale at phil
delphla; January 81, Brown at Phila-
delphia; February Z, Yale at New Ha-
ven; February s. Fordham at New
York; February IA, open: February is,
Princeton at Philadelphia FEBRUARY
20, Syracuse at Syracuse; February 2l'
Cornell at Ithaca; February 22 Koch
ester at Rochester; February 70, CO.
lumbia at New York; February ~, COR
nell at PHILADELPHIA.