The sun., 1916-12-31
PREDICTIONS FAIL
IN COLLEGE GAMES
Prognosticators Would DO
Well to Leave Schoolboy
Athletes Alone.
COLGATE UPSET DOPE
~ SOL METzoER.
(Ceaeh 81 washinSton and .Jeses
son Football Team.N

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tCeash % Warrington md JeRss
sen Football Team.)
The grand old dope may be an rim
but Il - . zoe hunch to follow n
any time In college sport. There |,
for example. the recent colGa,e.B Brown
affair At Providence on Thanksslyln,
morning. Brown was cocksure and Ar.
ursd It . 4 70 I advantage. Men vbo
were a. CLOSE TO Colgate as graduate.
could be ala not take the trip because q,
the sure dsfeAt tho team was 10 receive.
Yet Colgate won dscisfveiy.
Dsfore that Gams . mose AMUSING
bet was placed. Some wise sport
wsgsred . Brown undergraduates q ns.,
little sum that Brown had been beaten
this year. Brown beaten, :" exclaimed
tho B%runonian. why it's a shame to TAX.
the money" ''It sure is," exclaimed ,bs
sport as he produced a Football Guid.
In which was found the all but forgotten
record OF Washington State COLLEGES
- o 0 victory over Brown at Pasadsna.
Cal. on New Years Day. 1915.
Indeed, there II no cure thing dora
Witness the meeting OF two young men
after the Harvard II TO O football victory
over Yale IN 1915. They were under.
graduates OF the two institutions. former
~schoolboy chums at Andover.
I'VE lose nearly all our players Nv
graduation" said the Harvard boy.
That's good" answered the Val. .,u.
dent. And" he added. nearly all Of
U men return"
That 10 also good" retorted IN. Har.
ward youth.
But the miracle happened. The worm
turned. Yale's back numbers OF 1915
wailoped Harvard in 1915.
Yale due 70, Fau.
Up At New Haven they are feeling
as oocksure about next year a. Harvard
felt about this season ono year aso
Most OF the veterns will be back, and
there Is Kempton for quarterback-Tad
Jones's best bet at Exeter. Yet in spit.
OF all this optimism. in spite Of all IN.
veterans. Tad Jones. kempton e, al.
Yale will have the dickens Of a time
turning the trick next fall. There ia alb.
solutely nothing In the grand old dop.
He Is fake friend Of player. coach, ex.
port n public. n 10 inclined to knife
n in the back any Saturday during
October.
Next fail Is going TO be a three rinssd
circus In so far as interest 10 concerned
The difficulty all the college. arc having
In making their 1917 schedule Is proc.
OF that Harvard's desire 10 cut on,
dangerous teams until the Princeton and
Yale games: Yale's somewhat similar
feelings: Mlchigan's consideration OF en-.
tering n tho Big Nine conference and
tho actual need Of money by many ath.
letic association havo caused many won.
ders to happen.
Cornell forced out by Harvard and
threatened with the loss OF It's Michigan
game came near facing a financial crop.
per until Colgate offered A solution which
should prove fully as Interesting as III.
Harvard game. II il especially pleas
ing to both colleges because 81 their
proximity. Dartmouth. unfortunately
situated only in so far as game, with
other big colleges are concerned. IL 'ac.
to face with a financial problem.
Dartmouth Comes tn.
Since the Harvard game was 'o,,
Dartmouth has been meeting rcrr.yl.
vania. but the Boston game. on alternate
years. has not proved a financial sue,
cess. so an effort Is being made 10 rlsv
1t at Springfield. Mass, where Dart.
mouth and Brown will meet later I'm Nh.
~ D. 80 l'lNl' lf'IAINI
for the Green and these games vi! un.
doubleday draw as well as tho Vale.
Harvard affairs PLAYED there twenty
years and more ago.
dartmouth. having resumed VT
Brown. Is TO drop Syracuse. which CO..
lege In turn faces a big problem IN '.
schedule making. as II IL likely 10 'oss
Michigan, a university which Is rattle
sure TO Renter the Big Nine con,ercnc.
within another year. a move that VII
upset schedule making again. a. Il lray''
Pennsylvania n Michigan guessing ~
to what Is to happen.
The Middle Western situation Is !u'er.
esting not alone because Of tie intsn.
ton OF Michigan TO get back into ~.
fold but because the two leading 'raNs
OF this fall-Ohio state M Northwest,
ern-are refused games by other COP
ference teams. II makes ore wo"lc,
why they have a conference OhIn S't',
made Cornell a handsome Offer - n'a.
In Columbus. but could NOT ge' tho c1rs
Guarantees Trouhlcsom~.
The whole matter Of guarantee ls
one that needs looking into before mar
seasons roll by. Tho larger universit e'
have As a rule cut the, smaller tc7-s
down to n minimum. even below aetna.
expenses. when they have hodg't
them to play In the bowls, stad,ums. d"0'
n caves. When a small college hss
won from a big one. then draws a crowd
Of 10000 at the next game and gets a.
OF $500 out of-say a $4,000 gate
II 1t small wonder there IL hard feeling
among colleges over athletic matter. an
that intercollegiate sport Is c~rit'r''t
for being too commercial"
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