The sun., 1909-05-23
WITH4HE COLLEGE ATHLETES
DOINGS IN THE FIELD OF SPORT
IN EAST AND WEST.


IN EAST AND WEST.
Princeton Students Want Football and
baseball Games With CorneI Again
May Drop Rowing at Stsnford-In,-
provements At New York University.
There is apparently strong feeling at
Princeton that wider athletic relations
with Cornell should be established. Only
recently letters appeared In the Daily
Prircetonian recommending that Prince
ton should take steps to arrange football
and baseball games with the Ithacans.
with whom 9 track meet already is held.
Princeton and Cornell played football q
couple OF seasons ago but the game Has
dropped By Princeton on the ground that
tho Cornell game interfered with the grad
ual development OF the eleven for the
game with Yale. One OF tho letters in
the Prfncetonnn Was very strongly In
favor OF resuming relations with Cornell
and incidentally criticised the policy OF
the athletic governing board. This letter
WAS:
"A community that is taxed, we are
taught. has right to a voice in the direc-
tion Of Its expenditures. Furthermore
1t should have voice in the determine
tion OF its civic policy. Right hero in
Princeton there is an opportunity for such
community participation. and yet what
seems to most Of US to be the prime
undergraduate activity, athletics, Is man
aged in manner go alothful es to reflect
conspicuously a careless indifference.
Here Is the entire student body anxious
to see Cornell-Princeton athletic relation
ship. 1t has a right to have it's wish
granted because Of it's financial support
II for no other reason.
This year has seen the advent OF re-
forms in athletics that augur we'll indeed,
but only at time when undergraduates
will have a more direct voice in the hither-
to quasi-corporation management OF ath-
letics will Princeton have reached a sane
ideal in athletics. The charge that ath-
letioe Is a business Ia only too true at
present. Commercial interests .prepon-
derate college interests, The sole idea
seems to be to effect comfortable balance
In the annual report without regard to the
qualification Of the persons who make
possible that balance.
st is obviously a fault OF our athletic
system that a certain few individuals
should have in their power such import
ant questions as the athletic policy OF
Princeton toward other colleges. ven
ture that there are many Of us who would
like to see Cornell >and Princeton play
In football much rather than Syracuse
and Princeton. for instance or even
Dartmouth and Princeton. with all due
respect to those colleges. We have more
In common with Cornell than with any
other university in the East with the ex-
oepton Of Yale and Harvard.
ITO establish relations with Cornell
because the students OF Ithaoa have
shown themselves good fellows and capi-
tai hosts and because there is a good
spirit prevailing between US is a COM
menda bic reason in itself--for after all
friendlier contests and good sports
manship are fostered in that way; but II
it were for that alone the athletic mana ge-
ment might be justified in subordinating
social intercourse to expediency. But
it is all too apparent that it is expedient.
at least as much 90 for Princeton as for
Cornell, and so why claim an unfair ad-
vantage?
we can admit for tho present the argu-
ment that Cornell football game might
prevent the gradual development Of the
eleven for the Yale game, which, It appears,
has become so necessary in recent years;
but AZ for baseball or anything else the idea
is ridiculous. Indeed it would be graft
f.,iv % 70 "A ,,o Urn d,at tae <,<,rlJ Il, eo-.>
way affect the arrangement of athletic
schedules 90 that at least colleges which
have athletic ideas similar to Princeton's
might supplant the unknown quantities
80 often seen at University Field
CORNELL A WORTHY RIVAL.
There we're demonstrations Of strong
friendship on the occasions Of the last two
football games between Cornell and
Princeton. On both sides great efforts
were made to welcome the visitors, and
the games were played in fine and
friendly spirit. Most persons in the col
lege athletic world feel that Cornell is
one OF the cleanest in its athletics and
there is a growing desire among the
largest Of them to be associated with the
Ithacans In various contests.
Will e Cornell has developed very
rapidlv in the major sports except foot
ball and most Of the minors as well. II
occupies the position OF doing more for
the non-athletic student than almost any
other institution. The playground idea
for the non-team man has had its best
development a. Cornell and is An idea
that other colleges are following up.
Inasmuch as Princeton and Cornell meet
on the track there does not seem to be
any good reason why they should not
com Q together in other sports.
Especially as both the institutions have
athletic ideals very much OF the same
type there seem to be plenty Of good rea-
sons whv more athletic contests should
be arranged between them.
The suggestion In the Princeton man q
letter that the undergraduate should
have something t. do with the arranging
OF schedules is novel. Many major sport
team managers can see without much
trouble the amount Of confusion that
undergraduate interference with sched-
ules would cause. The team manager
is elected by the oolleg6 and therefore
he is supposed to represent II. 1t is
generally left TO his discretion to select
the teams that are to be met and not to
However, there is the germ OF a very
rood idea in that letter involving an
undergraduate vote to select teams to
be met In various sports. chiefly foot
ball. Why not submit to the students
a lat Of saw fifteen or twenty collage