The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-09

BURY The
RATCHET
Game Between
Princeton and Harvard
Practically Assured.

BOSTON, Jan. 9.-When the Harvard
athletic committee %ratiles the agreement
of Harvard and Princeton football men,
who met for luncheon yesterday at the
Hotel Tournine. football games between
the Crimson and the Tigers will be re-
sumed.
The three men representing Harvard
were Captain-eleet Francis Burr, ex-Cap-
tain Bartol Parker and Joshua Crane,
head coach Of last years eleven. Cap
tain-elect Dillon, of Princeton, and Head
Coach Roper represented Princeton at
this conference. November Z has been
suggested as the date for a game in Cam
bridge next fall.
Princeton has taken the initiative, and
when Roper was here last fall he did all
he could TO bring about a favorable atti-
tude toward the game among Harvard
men.
The Harvard athletic committee. which
represents the authorities of the univer-
sIty, has it in its power to reject or ac-
cept the proposition. The athletic commit
tee may think that another hard game
would be too much to add to Harvard's
already heavy schedule.
II Is well known that President Elliot
and others of the Harvard officials be-
heVe that the Cambridge football sched-
uie already is too long and too severe 81
10 " ilupIODdDle Indt the add
ton of another game to the list. and es-
pecially one as hard and as important
as a match with Princeton, would fail
10 ma favor among these authorities
Inc presence of Joshua Crane at the
meeung may be taken as an indication of
captain Burr's preference for the position
Oh mead coach at Cambridge next fall.
burr has not appointed Crane. nor can
ne appoint anyone without first submitting
me mn me nf 1 AA~t1- l.
mittee. This committee ALWAYS ratjfes
the coaches, but this year Burr has been
instructed to notify the committee whom
ne wants before he announces his prefer
ence TO anyone else.
Ever since Harvard stopped playing foot
Dali with Princeton, back In 1S96. tbe
T1gers have been anxious to arrange other
games. Harvard and the Tigers broke in
1889. but, pending the settlement of dif-
nculties with Yale in 1895 and 1896. rela-
uons were resumed between Cambridge
and the Jerseymen, which was only a two-
year agreement.
Last fall there was more talk of Harva ri
and Princeton getting together in football
imam there previously had been. The
princeton coach, Roper, conferred with in
nuential harvard men and spent several
days at Cambridge. At that time it was
denied that negotiations for a game were
under way.
Should the Harvard athletic committee
sanction a game between Harvard and the
Tigers next fall there will have to be sew
era changes in the Harvard schedule.
November z is the date generally given to
the Carlisle Indians, two weeks before the
Harvard-Yale game.
The first Harvard Princeton game would
be played at Cambridge. Yale next fall
will play on the Tigers home field and
Harvard will go to New Haven to meet
Yale. Irrespective of the hnal action on
the proposition it still stands as a fact that
those who will be in working control of
football at Harvard next fall have gone
on record as favoring a game with the
Tigers next November, and the Tigers
have agreed to come to Cambridge.