The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-21
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BREAK RECALLS
OTHER TROUBLES
Old Grad Explains Tangle That
Caused Difference with
Harvard and Penn.
BY | GRAD.

The break in football relations be-
tween Princeton and Cornell recalls
other differences hat the Tigers have
encountered with rivals of equal and
perhaps more famous calibre.
Princeton has always had the reputa-
ton of being ready for a scrap or a
frolic, as the case might be, and there
AVE been more scraps than quiet
b%eatitudes in the athletic history of the
great New Jersey university.
Harvard and Pennsylvania are no
longer on the Tiger football schedule,
nor have they been for years past.
Various reasons contributed to the
break ia relations between Princeton
and Harvard and there is little likeli-
hoo that football relations will ever be
resumed between the Crimson and the
Orange and Black, And it is an open
secret at Princeton hat there are no
broken hearts there or any great men
tai anguish over the prospect.
The trouble existing between Prince
ton and Pennsylvania goes back to the
famous gridiron contest fought put at
Trenton in 1894. On that occasion
Pennsylvania administered a smashing
defeat to Princeton, but that was not
the reason for the complete breaking
of all athletic relations. Princeton
claimed that Pennsylvania used muck
erish tactics and did not play football
according to the rules of sportsmanship
and fair play. Pennsylvania sneered
and said that Princeton's defeat was
the real reason for the break. The bit
terness engendered that day has never
completely disappeared. Princeton still
sings ITO -, to - with P~ennsylva-
MIA"
But the years have gradually worked
away the keen edged hostility, and to-
day you may even hear talk of foot
ball contests between the two natural
rivals. Yet it is improbable that a
gridiron contest will ever be arranged
so long as Dean Henry b. Fine remains
the athletic dictator of Tigerdom.
Princeton has so far receded from her
former attitude toward Pennsylvania,
however, that baseball games, track
meets, basketball and hockey contests
are now being played annually. The
best of spirit has been engendered and
the time must surely come when the
two great institutions of learning and
athletic prowess again meet each other
in stirring football battles.
The crushing defeat administered by
Princeton to Fair Harvard in 1896 is
the direct cause of the break between
the two colleges. Harvard got it and
in the words of Lew Fields got ii
good and plenty hat year. Her eleven
was so badly used up by the vicious and
champion Tigers that even though
Princeton chewed up Yale and won the
gridiron championship of the year Yale
was still able to hand out a Waterloo
of awesorne dimensions to the Crimson.
Since then there have been no football
games and there probably never will
be. Yale is Princeton's historic rival,
as Yale is that of Harvard. Prince
ton plays Harvard at baseball and
beats her with delightful surety and
precision. The two universities also
meet in other athletic contests, save
football. = Princeton doesn't care for
Harvard and the feeling is recipro-
Gated. All of which causes amusement
to the grads of other colleges.