Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-03
YALE TEAM IS PART
 OF COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE Says Daniel" in New York Press
 Brings Out Excellent Points on Re-
 cent IneIieibility. Z

"DanieT' in the New oYrk Press brings out for discussion an excellent point regarding the controversy of the past ten days on the Yale declaration players who made a mistake by ac- cepting board at QuoQue, l.. l., last summer. He speaks as follows:
 While some of the big universities are raising terrific hullabaloo over eligibility rules and profess an insist ence on strict adherence by individuals to foolish notions of amateurisn1, it would be well for them to look into the conditions that surround their en- tire athletic organization. When coi- lego bawlS out five of it's leading young men right in public for boarding somewhere without paying at the desk and insists that there be not the slight est suggestion of commercialtsm among the representatives in sports. we would expect the college to prac- rice what 1t breaches.
 There is no evading the fact That intercollegiate athletics has become organized into grand advertising scheme and that commercialiSm is the very foundation of it all. Certainly no huge concrete stadiumS are built to give the student body in general a chance to build up their bodies. They are put up to rake in the tremendous gntes' such as the $140,000 that the Yaie-H Harvard football game attracted last season.
 "All of. this leads up to, question we would like to propound to some Of the big colleges. Why do they refuse to play the Army or the Navy2 Cer- tain 1t is that any university eleven in the country ought to feel honored by an invitation to meet the service rep resentGffves in football, but there is one deadly observation-disclosures is no mon. ey in playing at either West Point or Annapolis.
 .At neither of these places is any admission charged to football or any other games. The Cadets and the Mid dies support their athletics by con tI1butions and get little help from graduate members of their athletic as- sociations. Usually. when teams go to the Point or Annapolis, they arrange for nominal guarantee, and then turn it back to the service athletic organ izaticus.
 While at West Point recently. we got into a discussion with some of the cadets on the subject of big football games. We said something about the need for a big game at West Point such as that which used to be an an- nual affair with Yale A few of the cadets spoke with great feeling about the sririt that induced Yale to cancel football relations with the army.
 From 1893 to 1912, Yale came to West Point every year for a game that ranked with the most important in the east. The Ellis always got real fight, and in 1910 and 1911 the West Pointers reached stage where they were able to defeat the Blue. Yale scored by to in 1912, and that was the end of Yaie-Army football.
 The commercial bee began buzzing at New Haven. Here was Yale vast ing 8 perfectly fine chance to make lot of money by playing to free gate at West Point. Accordingly the waste WAS done away with on strictly pure, amateur basis Had relations been continued, Yale would have played the Army last Saturday-that was the usual date for their game. By not visiting West Point and playing Wash ingtou and Jefferson at New Haven, Tale was the richer by about $10,000. Several years ago Princeton took a trip down to Annapolis. There was no money in it. and when an invitation was rendered the Tigers to come back next year 1t was turned down. The Navy was able to arrange with Penn sylvaEia to come to Annapolis by agreeing to home and home contests. The Army cannot get permission to go away from the Point and has, there fore, been unable to induce any of the big eievens to meet it on the gridiron. No more striking commentary on inter- collegiate athletic conditions is needed As the colleges have built up this huge commercial enterprise, they must rebuild their systems to make condi- &ous 1t the individual, and must drop yEe stupid British notion that an ath- fete is an amateur only if he is s1p- ported by somebody else"