Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-09
SENTIMENT FOR
CONTEST IN EAST
Midway Board to Consider Ma
roon-Harvard Game at a
Special Meeting.
PLAN ON CAMPUS
Dean Small of Opinion That Crimson
Should Agree to Return Match
the Following Year.

Negotiations for a Chicago-Harvard
football game next fall took more def
mite shape yesterday at the Maroon
campus when members of the board
OF physical culture and athletics re-
ceived their first official notice of the
Crimson offer to meet Coach Stages
team Oct "a or Oct. 81 at Cambridge.
Announcement was made that a spe-
cial meeting would be held as soon
as possible to consider the eastern in
vitation.
The Midway athletic authorities,
who had been inclined to think the
plans for a battle with the Crimson
team were of a vague nature, had
their doubts removed when President
Harry Pratt Judson received a COM
munication from Coach Stage con-
tanning the terms of Harvard's offer.
President Judson said he preferred
not to discuss the prospects for the
game until after the board meeting,
but the rooters got a fair idea of the
campus sentiment through other
sources.
Hitch Over Return Game?
Dean Albion w. Small, Chicago's
conference representative. said there
were no indications as to how the
board as a whole would stand on the
proposal, but ventured the opinion
that the game would not be scheduled
unless Harvard would agree TO play
Chicago at Stage field in 1915. Mem
bers of the board declared that the
Maroon policy was decidedly against
playing any eastern team on a one
year contract.
Intercollegiate dignity will be the
stumbling block in case the plans
come to nothing. according to the Chi
cago students and alumni The board
members assert that it would be I'M
dignified to go to Cambridge without
a return game. The Chicago profess
sors believe the Maroons would lose
prestige by listing a single game.
Fear Marrine Western Schedule.
Another objection that cropped up
among members of the faculty was
based on the fear that Chicago's west
ern schedule would suffer as a result
of the journey to Cambridge so early
in the season. The football players
answered this argument with the
statement that the Maroon team could
be worked up to its best form by Oct.
81 and that the few practice sessions
lost and the hardships of travel would
not be serious. The football athletes
think Coach Stagg is fully, capable of
this phase of the subject, !
which would apply TO any intersec- |
-ional contest.
A still more important barrier will |
be discussed in the coming board /
Several of the professors !
nave SHE'D at the probability that the |
game might settle the national cham |
Dionship, as the faculty deplores all |
attempts to settle titles, even inside |
he conference. The turn down" ad- /
ninistered the plan to hold a ma
ional championship basketball series |
n March was the outgrowth of this !
lnti-title sentiment.
Coaches Favor Contest
Coaches Page and Sauer of the Ma
Don football team are enthusiastic
'ver the possibility of a game, believ-
ng that the Maroons would have a
rood chance to shine even before No
-ember. Capt Nelson Norgren of the
913 football team and Captain Elect
)es Jardien of the 1914 eleven Joined
he boosters as soon as they heard
f Haryard's offer, and the students
will make an attempt to influence the
'oard favOrably by much agitation
+ the subject on the campus.