Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-25
HARVARD HAS ADVANTAGE
 OVER VALE PRINCETON.
Tigers and Ellis Have. Their Biggest
 Opponents fn Two Successive Weeks.

| w Ell WfAEGt VI FrttN@G QtNs Tigers and Ellis Have Their 5issest
 Opponents in Two Successive Weeks.
 Princeton and Yale will support proposal to have the football sched- ules of Harvard, Yale and Princeton shifted slightly for next year as. a result of the Crimson's victories in the season just closed. The football authorities at New Haven and Prince. moth advantage every season by hav- ing fortnight intervene between it's two big games. in which a contest with weaker opponent is sceduled. while the Tigers and Ellis must meet their two greatest opponents in two successive weeks.
 May Sign Agreement.
 The three universities may enter in- to triangular football agreement. which they annually sign, whereby their gridiron schedules mfy be so ar- ranged as to shift the advantage of a fortnight's vacation to a different team each year instead of leaving 1t to Harvard every year.
 Princeton advances the suggestion this year, and with apparent good req son, for the loss of the Tiger final battle to Yale was attributed in a large measure to the manner in which they had to wear themselves out against Harvard on the week pre- vious. Princeton did not play against Yale in the form that it played against Harvard.
 The Daily Princetonian, the under graduate newspaper, proposes that ! Harvard now show its sportsmanship by agreeing to allow her two biggest rivals to share the advantage that Haughton's teams have been enjoying for the past five years. since the three universities have played on one an- others schedules. The editorial utter | ance of the Princeton paper is as fol- | lows:
 Harvard can perfect a system for | Princeton, use it to the limit and throw | Into the contest all her strength. She then has 8 fortnight in which com pletelv to recast her plans, roint them | for her other big game and recoup her | forces.
 1 .'It would be sportsmanlike and just | for the Harvard athletic authorities to agree to let Yale and Princeton turn | and turn about in this undoubted strategic advantage. Harvard would | win the appreciation of Princeton and Yale men, and her glory would be the | greater on occasions when she is the 1 conqueror."
 Harvard does not look with any fla 1 vor on this proposal. for such an ar | a curtainment of Crimson power in tho | two big games of the season, and | would ruffle the present steady trend l of events to Harvard's climax Head | Coach Haughton lays his plans for the l Princeton and Yale games principally. l and the rest of the schedule is. each year built to provide smooth ap- | proach to the main battles of the year. | In 1911 and 1912 Harvard had a | greater football burden than either l big games on the end of its sched- l ule with Princeton, Dartmouth and ! Yale in that order. In 1911 the re- suits were unsatisfactory, for Prince ton defeated the Harvard team to 6. ] Harvard was able to defeat Dartmouth tie with Yale.
 Better Results Formerly.
 In 1912 this trio of games was played just the same with much better re- suits, Harvard winning from Princeton 1 Is to 6. from Dartmouth to O., and from Yale 20-to"0. but Haughton de- cided there was too great an impo- sition on his team and too much of a chance for injuries that might keep l the Dartmouth contest, was cancelled l and the Brown team given the date between the Princeton and Yale con- tests. For the past three years the | schedule for the last three games has
 remained unchanged, and it has been highly satisfactory to Harvard. It is no secret that the Crimson manage
 ment would balk at running off his
 two principal games in successive
 weeks.
 The arrangement which Princeton
 suggests is to have the Princeton
 Yale, Princeton Harvard and Yale
 Harvard games played in that order
 the First year. thus giving Yale two
 weeks between her main games; the
 Harvard-Princeton, Harvard Yale and
 Princeton Yale games in that order
 the second year, giving Princeton twt
 weeks between the main games that
 year, and the Princeton Harvard
 Princeton-Yale and Harvard Yale games iE that order the third year
 giving Harvard two weeks between tht
 principal games. In this manner eacf of the teams would have fortnight oi
 rest between the two main contests
 every three years.
 Harvard's objections to such an ar
 engagement are several. In the flrs place. the athletic authorities are loatf
 to give up the arrangement that now | exists since it works so satisfactorily
 In the second place, it would mear
 that once every three years it would
 be necessary to play the climax game
 between Harvard and Yale beroe the
 very end of the season. thus necessi-
 tating the loss of one week during
 that particular season. As it is now
 the Harvard-Yale game is a fixture
 coming the Saturday before Thank
 giving.
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