Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-11
STILL WIDE APART
No Chance of Harvard and
Princeton Meeting This Year.
HARD GAMES FOR CRIMSON
Foot Ball Practice On in Earnest.
More Control Needed for
Tennis at Colleges.
BY Edward R. Bushnell.

BY Edward K. Bushnell.
No foot ball season would be complete
without the publication Of the old ru-
NOR announcing the early renewal OF
foot ball relations between Harvard
and Princeton. Every year ii crops
up. either at Princeton or Cambridge.
usually the former. IL has now been
doing duty for a dozen years or more
and there il no evidence that the game
Is any nearer reality now than ever.
The latest revival Of the rumor credits
Harvard with the intention of dropping
Dartmouth to make room on her sched-
ule for Princeton.
Those who are really informed as TO
the state of intercollegiate foot ball
politics do not need the denial from
Harvard. According 70 Harvard au-
thorities there is not the slightest
chance Of game with the Tigers at
present. If il were possible TO take on
big opponents every week Harvard could
meet all corners. But long as foot
bail remains the strenuous game il is
three championship contests are all any
big team can play IN single season
This fact OF itself would lie sufficient
to exclude Princeton frcm Harvard :
schedule. The Crimson now has games
scheduled with Cornell. Dartmouth ard
Yale. These three games occupy the last
three Saturdays of her schedule. An Oc-
tober date would he unacceptable 10 both
Harvard and Princeton. In order. there
fore, to arrange a game with Pr nceton
il would be necessary for Harvard 10
drop either Cornell or Dartmouth.
Prior TO 1904, the date of the III 81
Harvard Cornell game, there might have
been a chance for the Tigers. Princeton.
however. lost her chance when the tina
cans secured the date which had once
been held by Pennsylvania and later by
the Indians. After Harvard had defeated
Cornell IS to o in the initial game il was
freely predicted that the Crimson would
drop the Ithacans. These prophets. how
ever ignored the fact that Harvard anu
Cornell had been getting Closer together
i'm athletics every year. They now meet
regularly on the gridron. tre diamond
and the water. The feeling between the
two is most friendly Cornell certainly
will do nothing to mar Ii and Harvard
is apparently satisfied with her new any.
The foregoing is even truer or the
relations that exist between Harvard
and Dartmouth. They meet in foot
ball base ball and track athletics. The
foot ball game which is played every
year in the Harvard stadium is one OF
the big drawing cards OF the GRIM
sons schedule. There are SO many
Dartmouth men in Boston that the at
tendance at this annual game always
mounts up to between $4,000 and 40
600 There is not the same local in
terest in Princeton that there Is In
Dartmouth. so that Harvard would &c
herself more harm than good by SUP
shutting Princeton for Dartmouth.
What makes the likelihood of Har-
vard-Princeton game even more remote
Is the fact that both Cornell and Dart
mouth are perfectly Wiling TO play
financial significance TO Harvard
Princeton would certainly demand that
the game. IL ii could be arranged, be
played alternately in Cambridge AND
Princeton. This would hardly De ac-
ceptabIe to Harvard. and the advantage
IL any. OF playing Princeton would GER
tainly not outweigh those which come
from the present arrangement
These facts are merely set forth TO
show how unlikely is the arrangement
Of q foot ball alliance between Harvard
and Princeton. There Is no particular
antagonism in Harvard circles toward
the Tigers. though the violent dis
putes which featured their relation
in the minds of the older graduates.
1t is evident that Princeton must do
something soon to strengthen her FOOT
ball schedule. AT present the Tigers
have but a single opponent whose game
can draw a big crowd That opporent Is
Yale. and the proceeds from this game
are principally what keeps the Tigers
going financially. Indeed. the
athletic profits at Princeton are only
about one half those OF Yale and Har-
ward and considerably less than those
of Pennsylvania The nearest approach
to big games for Princeton, not count
ing the Yale contest, are with the Car
Isle Indians. Lafayette and Dartmouth.
The latter game is scheduled for New
York and may draw fair crowd II
the Princeton team is good one. In
the MAN, however. these games viii
be hard ones for Princeton to win and
the financial receipts of all three will
not equal those Of the Yale game.
Foot Ball Practice On in Earnest.