Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-11
REVIVAL OF
4BIG FOUR" IS
A POSSIBILITY
ale Weekly Says Schedule
Could Be Equalized
for Harvard
ENTATIvE SUGGESTION
D. EDWARD R. BUSHNELL

III Dl IL
,,ore TO be revival OF the big
Il !, NJ Harvard, Yale, Princeton and
.,,a,ia? This is the query raised
- supaestion Of Yale graduate
wri,es to the Yale Alumni Weekly
a ,ho championship football schedule
a =. ,oualized for Harvard, Yale and
"A -, and Justice done to Pennsyl-
= Nv a four-cornered arrangement
.,oh these four institutions should
Fl WIN VIII other the first three Saturdays
q "A .,.oynber ea and on each others fields in
ternate years
n Encouragement
!. fact that at least one of these
universities Is seriously CONSIDER
az arrangement by which fenhsyi-
q W III, resume relations with this trio
Hnia W. w. ,,cor or two. Both Yale and
a,a,, ano. are convinced that they can
nee s .op,nete on even terms with Har-
8sr long as the Crimson enjoys the
as ~ a two weeks rest between
abiIe Princeton and Yale have to
NO. championship games on succeed
s...,rdovs The compromise sug-
by which each university would
uon W yhrnnt of this unequal schedule
"A pstrd vear does not satisfy. The
"A y -.'ngostion for evening it mp by the
y s.ee ~ pennsylvania carries with It
pslon t,vo-year schedule so ar
plvsth .s that the big games on each date
& %5d he nj the maximum distance apart.
Is as follows
lid
.,..,0hor l. Yale VS. Pennsylvania at
s%ncston VS. Harvard at Cambridge.
t,vember II, Yale VS.. Princeton AT
<nceton. -. ro,,
Ssosvsmber IS, Yale VS. Harvard at New
,r,ncston gn, VS.. Pennsylvania at Philadel-
hla
Di7
$yovsmber 3, Yale vs. PENNSYLVANIA at
&w Haven.
Princeton VS.. Harvard at Princeton,
{Novenber 10, Yale VS.. Princeton at
NV Haven.
Harvard VS.. Pennsylvania at Philadel-
ta. , ,..,
II, Yale VS.. Harvard at Cam
bdge.
Princeton VS.. Pennsylvania at Prince
Il.
Y IS understood that Yale men are par
eularly impressed with the reasonable
.ss of this suggestion. They see no
her way TO get fair deal in the matter
schedule making. The old hostility
hlch followed the meteoric rise of Penn
yania In athletics Is being lost siSht
rapidly. II still flourishes among some
the graduates who were concerned In
hletic management in those days. But
. present group of undergraduates
red little about the old quarrels. The
.uation is further helped by the fact
AT at each OF these universities mem
hs of the faculties, all with common
ms, are taking over more and more
elcontrol Of undergraduate sports and
|elarrangement of intercollegiate sched-
|es They are. or ought to be, free
on the prejudice of many old alumni.
the same eligibility rules
1Fern everywhere.
hree Game Failure
apparently Harvard, Yale and Prince
b have found the three-game baseball
fles tried last year failure, for Prince
N in announcing its 1916 schedule has
1t two dates with each, though arrang-
& for third in case of a tie. The rea-
N for the change is that last year the
llrd game was unnecessary in but one
.se. Harvard won its first two games
ON Princeton and Yale, so that the
lird game was nothing more than an
Ehihitlon contest. The final game of
q season between Harvard and Yale
RaA -
3 the championship cinched, played
snessly and disgusted many of the Har-
afd followers who had expected to see
lslr team put up a real fight.
topping Off the third game unless II
necessary will be most acceptable to
ner colleges Last year the three-game
fies caused Harvard, Yale and Prince
2 10 reserve two eXtIa saturdays, with i
& result that some opponents of long
andlng were either dropped or forced
play midweek games.