New Britain herald., 1915-11-19
5 WILL NOT
 PROTEST MAHAN
] That Athletic Authorities lld Ask Removal Denied

IId dVSil, NOV. lS.-ln reTGf6nCe
 report current here yesterday
 ale would protest the playing
 ptain Mahan of the Harvard
 Fn the game on Saturday on ac-
 of alleged infringement of the
 summer baseball rule that de-
 Legore from participating in
 Hth1etics this year it was stated
 prominent Yale graduate who is
 Rch with all the moves being
 by the Yale Athletic association
 that Yale would not make the
 hove in the matter.
 members of the Yale Athletic
 Ration have refused to discuss the
 Ion of the eligibility of any of
 botball players outside of Yale.
 leaking of this attitude of Yale's
 matter this Yale graduate said fday: Tt never has been Yale5s
 i, no matter what facts might be
 hands, to meddle in the affairs
 her Harvard or Princeton by di- drawing the attention of the
 Is of either university to any al-
 violation of eligibility rules or
 E the attention of some graduate
 Lrvard or Princeton to a situation
 at kind so that Yale has kept
 hands clean. Yale always has Ftained that each university Id manage its own athletic affairs,
 there will be no departure this
 from that stand. As matter *$, ,,f IT
 lever with the eligibility incident
 this year except to express re- | that the. Yale men could not 7hen pressed for a reply to the @tion as to whether or not the
 CT of the eligibility of Mahan to < this year on the Harvard team come up for discussion among football players and coaches, he l: T know that the subject has , discussed among the players and allegations have been made that same rule that worked against players if applied at Cambridge Id disqualify Captain Mahan, but
 has been bound to come to the 1t. Of course there are people
 claim that they have the facts in case, but as to the truth of that ould be hard to determine.
 The fact that the matter has been ussed more Or less among Yale iuates, and undergraduates for
 matter, cannot be denied, but it's fly improbable that at this stage he season anything will be done ut it. As a matter of fact I can see on what ground Harvard Id consider taking any action just the eve of a championship game, much as Captain Mahan has ed through the season. It would to debar any player this late date, and especially ain, unless some formal protest made by the opposing team. And e will be no protest by Yale.
 Tn this whole eligibility matter it t not be forgotten that while the ,e colleges Yale, Harvard and ceton have had practically the e eligibility rules governing them, matter of fact they have worked ' differently in the three universi- It has been been the desire here Yale that some changes should be le in the rules that should so ap- to all the colleges that hereafter layer at one college should not be lualified from playing, while at ther the same technical violation ! rule should be overlOked. That what it is hoped will be accom- !: he'd by this committee from the ee colleges that will take up this ibility question at the close of the tbal1 season this year.
 mother former college football yer, who has followed the game ct e, Harvard and Princeton for nty years or more, although not a duate of any of these universities, 5 asked today if it was true tha the ,stion of Captain Mahan's eligibill- had been discussed among football Lches and others in the game out e of the Yale camp, and he said have heard all sorts of stories re- rding the question discussed here l in New York and Boston, but as what the real facts are in the case It is a question. But whatever they ], it's safe bet that the Harvard cials know. them-at least some of m do, anyway. The story that ptain Mahan received $500 fol wing lawn at some Harvard mp may be just 8 figment of the agination, probably is, but if this ability rule were enforced a: lctIy at Harvard and Princeton a. las been at Yale I am inclined tc nk that both teams would lose yers.
 While Yale men as @ rule will have hing to say for publication abou
 infringements of this eligibillt. e on the part of Princeton ano ward it is we'll known on the out e that Princeton especially ha en notorious in this regard. St lch so that many football men wht re on the fence, so to speak, have lrveled at it. Yale, however, t' 7 knowledge, never has made an. ,ve against either Princeton or liar I'd, preferring to let these college Se care of their own affairs. A tryard conditions have been better t even at that men have got b. yHyl@ n a 6 II