The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-01
COLLEGIATE GAME
TO Be CONTINUED
Harvard Holding Up An
nOuncement to Be Made.
Ellis AND TIGERS READY
Football Considered Necessary as
Service Training.
Ellis AND TIGERS READY
By LOUIS A. BOUCHER.


intercollegiate football will be
played next fall.
When the National Collegiate Ath-
letic Association meets in Washing
ton next August an official announce
ment to this effect will be made.
Meanwhile the usual schedules will be
arranged during the summer, to be
made public by September.
Georgetown expects TO lose a large
number Of its best players, but enough
will remain to form a nucleus around
which Coach Exendine will build an
other victorious eleven. The KILL
toppers will drill along with the
others and retain football.
Conservatives Are Backward.
The Graduate Athletic Managers
Association met last week in New
York and It was the general senti-
ment OF the meeting to continue coll
legiate football, even IL not upon such
a pretentious scale seen for the past
few years.
The three conservatives, Harvard,
Yale, and Princeton, declined to make
any announcements. 1t was Har-
wards backwardness in this respect
which held up the whole affair, for
both Yale and Princeton lean toward
continuing the gridiron game.
Walter Camp, Yale's "old Master"
is strongly in favor of football next
fall, and he has the support Of
Princeton.
Cornell Wants Game.
Cornell, one of the first Of the uni
versities to cancel it's spring sport
schedules at the declaration of war,
Is working hard to retain football.
Pennsylvania is still keeping its
varsity nine in the field, and expects
to put a football eleven in uniform
in September.
Pittsburgh, through Graduate Man
ager Karl z. Davis. makes the an
nouneement that football will be kept
up, and already a tentative schedule
Il being arranged.
West Would Keep II.
Michigan and Minnesota, which
boosted the strongest eleven in the
West last season, notihed the meet
ing that football was desired by both
of them.
Syracuse, canceling all sports this
gridiron in 1917.
Brown University is eager to re-
tain football. no sports having been
cancelled at the Providence institution.
Army Teams VIII Play.
Both service elevens, West Point
and Annapolis, will take the field.
The soldiers and sailors play foot
ball more as a recreation from the
grind of military drills and studies
than for any other reason, and the
same necessity will exist next fall
as at any other time.
Harvard cancelled all its sports with
the outbreak OF war between Ger
many and the United States. Inter-
mural sports were tried without sue
cess, the tang of competition lacking.
Now the Cantabrigians are hanging
back, declining to tell their plans for
the future.
Football II. Needed
It is unlikely that the army will
clean out the colleges Of all their stu
dents. Indeed, It is more probable
that less than one-quarter will don
the khaki Many students are not
old enough for military service.
All those eligible for military service
will not be taken in the draft Those
remaining behind will require Just as
much physical training next fall as
ever before. II not a little more. and it
is on this account that the colleges plan
10 continue intercollegiate football.
which is admittedly one Of the best
forms Of training for the army.