Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-08

Tiger foot ball team this year will do
more work in single season than any
Princeton eleven has essayed in the last
decade. AT this writing the Yale game
Is the only big contest actually arranged.
II will be played at New Haven Novem-
Der Is For their other November dates
the Tigers wish to meet Dartmouth and
Harvard. 1t has been very difficult to
straighten out this Harvard-Princeton
tangie. AS far as sentiment Is concerned
Harvard is friendly enough disposed to-
ward Princeton to play the game, but the
problem of finding date and not offend.
ing her present allies has not been solved.
Princeton wants Harvard to play in Til
gertown either November or November
IL. preferably the latter. Then Princeton
would play Dartmouth November and
the Indians October 2s.
Were Princeton actually to have her
wishes complied with she would face five
big teams on successive Saturdays. two
of them away from home. Arrangements
have been tentatively made with the
Navy Tor a game at Annapolis October
y. The Tigers do not want to drop the
Indians. with whom they resumed rela-
tons last spring, and the Redmen would
probably occupy October 2S on the sched-
ule: Then with Dartmouth, Harvard and
Yale on following Saturdays. the Tigers
would have a busy November
In view of the fact that in previous
years Princeton has been content to play
only two big games year makes it
somewhat surprising that she is SO anx-
ious to schedule five this year. AS
matter OF fact, this is all part Of the pol
Icy Of Head Coach Roper, who believes
that II Princeton is ever to beat Yale
she must condition herself by playing
more big games. To this end the Prince
ton season this fall will open a week
earlier than usual and extend a week
longer ~F@" --~-.~ -
The Tiger authorities believe the new
rules -make this possible. Heretofore
the game has been SO strenuous that a
big team has not dared to play more
than two championship games and
Princeton has always been content with
one. Princeton thinks that the new
rules permitting a player to be taken out
of the game and then returned at the be-
ginning of subsequent period has made
foot ball much less sruelins sport and
that the five games referred to could be
played without difficulty.
All-star Team Battered On.
The trip of the All-Star foot ball team
organized ard coached by ex-Capt.
Hamilton Fish Of Harvard. through the
southern states, has not been the un-
qualified success expected. For instance,
most of the games have been scoreless
affairs with poor foot ball predominatine
and a great many minor injuries The
results have been pretty much what was
expected. Foot ball Is popular princi-
pally on account OF the intercoliegiate
rivalry engendered. II the game had TO
make Its way as a game it not only
would not draw big crowds. but the men
themselves would not play it.
No War Upon A. A. U.
There has been a good deal of un
necessary alarm felt in some athletic
quarters over TIE fear OF a war between
the Athletic Research Society and the
Amateur Athletic Union. because of a
movement made by the first named or
sanizatlon 10 supervise the athletics Of
the secondary schools. AS a matter ~
fact. the A A. u. would welcome the
formation OF some such body to do this
very thing aid instead of fighting woul0
certainly assist it.