The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-14
BIG EASTERN ELEvtNS
TO CHANCE GAME DATES
Yale. Harvard and Princeton VIII
Very Likely Change Their sched-
ule Around Next Season

1t is possible that there may be
some change In the present schedule
OF games between Yale. Princeton and
Harvard before many years go by
Indeed. 1T would not be a surprise il
there is an alteration in the dates in
| 1sl7. Yale now is playing Princeton
and Harvard on consecutive Saturdays
and Princeton meets Yale and Har-
ward with only the same time inter-
| Sening Harvard has two weeks rest
between its contests with Princeton
and with Yale. This undoubtedly
serves to give the Crimson a big ad-
vantage---an advantage which has
been commented on several times.
The question of changing the dates
has come up more than once. 1t was
stated at one time that Harvard had
offered to effect a Encouragement. but
neither Princeton. nor Yale cared to
do so. Now, though. the Irritation
seems to be coming from a Yale
source. The following excerpt from
an editorial printed in the Yale Alum
nj Weekly gives a. close insight into
the view OF the graduates of the Dark
Blue institution, and certainly shows
their realization that Princeton and
Yale are working in their games with
Harvard under a handicap:
Now that Yale finally may look
with little more equanimity at the
future football-wise. it Is quite to the
point to raise a question or two which
ii was not possible to raise, during the
time when Yale could not rise above
the conditions imposed upon her
There are number of such questions
but what we particularly refer to is
the present Princeton Harvard ale
schedule, wherein Harvard has two
| weeks rest between her two final
games, while Princeton and Yale both
have to play their two games on sue
cessive Saturdays. To be sure. in the
eighties and early nineties. Yale played
her two rivals with five-day interims
| between Saturdays and Thanksgtvings
| But the other games In those days
were the merest practice, with scores
of from ll3 TO in one Dartmouth
game to 30 to o against Wesleyan and
Williams. Nowadays 'ethe smaller
teams come into their games on very
different basis-they know football as
well as the older colleges know 1T:
/ with the modern open game they fire.
auently hold the score down to very
small figures and not infrequently
win through some specially valuable
plays or forward-pass combination.
All this has entirely changed the
complexion of things this year. for
stronger opponents than Colgate and
! Brown, while all of her so-called min
or team opponents gave her very
/ hard games. This left the team physi-
caliy so worn out that many of the
players were in poor condition in the
two final games. and several of the
best of them could not play at all.
Playing Harvard and Princeton on
successive Saturdays under these new
conditions Is not good either for the
game or for the players. Princeton.
of course. has the same problem Har-
ward alone has not. We do not sug-
eest that Yale completely rest her
players between the two final games.
IL a game Is worth playing at all II is
worth playing with the best one has,
But q revised schedule which would
put a less vigorous game in between
the two final games for both Prince
ton and Yale would meet modern con-
ditions and be much fairer to both
than the present one-sided arrange
ment ever can be"