The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-22
Penn Students Are After Big" Game
Fail to See Why Yale, Harvard and Princeton Should Look
 Down on Them

Pennsylvania needs a 'big'' football game. This is the opinion of gradu- ates and undergraduates at the Phila. delphia university. If athletes-espe- same Amust be arranged with some team in the socalled "big four.'' Princeton or Harvard is needed to fill out the season to make it suc- cessful and of sustained interest. This Cornell. with it's chain of defeats on Franklin Field, has failed of late years in doing.
 The trend of Pennsylvania's wants toward big game was disclosed at a recent dinner to the football team Then many speeches were made. most of them by graduates. and from all it was gathered how the Quakers feel about the situation. The speech which reused great enthusiasm and has created considerable talk and dis cussion was delivered by Bo Thomp- son, a varsity baseball and football player of the class of 1894
 He analysed the effect that unsuc- cessful and successful seasons have on Pennsylvania graduates, and de- c1ared that what is needed to arouse the alumni from. their lethargy is a game with one of the other three "big four' teams-a game that will con- CTS and supporters would alike be looking forward to with enthusiasm. He declared that the graduates of Pennsylvania are quftters in that they lie down when the team is suffering defeat and only rally when it is beat ing everything in sight.
 ''They do not care'' said Thompson, whether the team is made up of a lot of good, whole-hearted sportsmen. whoever though beaten, play the game for all it is worth. What they want is that the team shall win.''
 <TyI team which represented the Red and Blue last fall to be composed of scholarly men. without a single con- ditioned athlete among them.
 Speakers who followed Thompson la mented at length that Pennsylvania colleges. They declared that most Princeton men. for instance, look up- on Pennsylvania as an institution containing ''muckers" and whose teams play unsportsmanlike football. They made the point that these eol- leges would have to be educated to the fact that Pennsylvania Is, not jail Or a house of correction or some thing of that sort, but university composed of men of the Harvard, Yale or Princeton type. AS an ex- ample it was stated that Coach Roper eleven wanted to meet Pennsylvania last autumn but that the feeling of the students and alumni at the Jer- sey university was against the pro- ject.
 Following this line, Charles Vol fert, who spent four years at Prince ton and later did postgraduate work at Pennsylvania, declared that when Tiger he shared the feeling of his classmates regarding the Red and Blue. He hastened to add, however, that upon entering Pennsylvania he met nothing, but gentlemanly sports men on the athletic teams there He concluded with the statement that the 1911 Pennsylvania team was superior in scholarship and refinement to any eleven he had ever known
 Keogh who was a member of the Amherst football team before coming to Penn, said that the feeling against the Red and Blue was the same among the New England colleges as reported from Princeton. He also said that he considered Pennsylvania students and athletes to be equal, if not superior, in department to many of those who criticised them aversely.