Evening star., 1908-01-26

features of the Olympic sports. There
is something about intercollegiate meet
which the majority of people prefer 10
lnterclub games, and although most of
the athletes on the American collegiate
team would also be members of the Olyn-
pic team the college games would with
out doubt be one of the red letter days
Of the carnival.
Considerable surprise is being expressed
over the complete Willingness of the Har-
ward and Yale representatives a the meet
ing which framed the challenge to acqui-
esce In the plan, knowing as they must
have done that the acceptance would
mean the death knell for the proposed
dual games between Yale, Harvard, OK
ord and Cambridge. 1t is worthy of note
that since the challenge was made pubic
there has been disposition on the part
of some Yale men TO antagonlZe the plan.
Te the intercollegiate public at large this
attitude is resented A great many col
lege men have felt for years that 1t was
unfair to this country to permit Harvard
and Yale to enjoy the monopoly of repre-
senting the United States in these inter
national meets, and that different
scheme should be proposed for future con-
tests. To the credit of the Harvard au-
thorities it should be said that they have
shown a most commendable Willingness
to sacrifice their interests in the dual meet
for the larger intercollese contest which
would enable this country to show its full
strength to the British universities.
Harvard Scheme Not Liked.
The New England colleges have thrown
cold water on the scheme suggested by
the Harvard faculty that there be a gen
era reduction in all intercollegiate sched-
ules AS far as the other New England
colleges were concerned the suggestion
fell upon dea1 ears. for practically all of
these schools had their schedules in pre-
te1t,, t1a rha, he,
saw no reason why they should be still
farther reduced. The suggestion has done
nothing but stir up resentment at Har-
ward. and the students are up in arms
over the proposition. They contend that
their. faculty ought to cease its policy OF
keeping their athletics in turmoil. FOR
nearly two years the faculty and over
seers have kept Harvard men on the
anxious seat by threats to discontinue all
intercollegiate sports, and now that some
semblance of order has been restored IL is
proposed to curtail even the liberty which
they We're able to save.
Tie failure of the negotiations for a
foot ball game between Harvard ana
Princeton was due in part to the hostility
of the faculty and overseers to making
the Crimson schedule any harder. And
there is little question that II the foot htli
men had been able To overcome the other
| obstacles to arranging this game they
would have been overruled by either the
athletic committee, the FACULTY or the
board Of overseers. At any rate no one
fully conVersant with the situation has
any reason To be surprised that the plans
for a foot bail game failed to mature.
II is probably just as wei for princeton
that the Harvard game was not afiSshSed,
for the Tigers b. meeting Yale, cornell
and Harvard would have had one OF the
hardest schedules ever attempted by big
university and would have been extremely
lucky to have come through with VIC
torious record. Princeton has only l,2U
students from which to recruit her ath
athletic teams, and 1t would have been
sheer folly to expect consistent victories
over Harvard, Yale and Cornell with more
Inan twice this number to draw from.