Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-14
"BIG THREE" POLICY
RAPED BY CORNELL
AS TOO AUTOCRATIC
Dropping Of Dartmouth BY
Princeton, Colgate by
Yale and Cornell BY Hw-
card Starts Trouble
BIG FOUR" TO ATTACK

New York, Feb. 1.-THE intercolllegi.
ate athletic world is in the throes Of
veritable revolution. Alliances OF long
standing have been terminated and new
alignments are in the process Of organi-
zation. The reason for the general up
heaval lies in the policy of Big Three
isolation promulgated by Harvard, Yale
and Princeton in the conference Of their
faculty sport representatives in this city
some days ago. The Big Three deter
mined that they were to make their
alliance stronger than ever, and that
even secondary rlvalries would not be
tolerated.
In consequence Of this decision Prince.
ton has dropped Dartmouth in football
Harvard has terminated its long track
and football alliance With Cornell and
Yale is understood to have withheld an
invitation to Brown to play football
next season. Even the tertiary relation
which Yale had with Colgate in football
has been eliminated, as it was found
that Colgate had became too strong a
rival and that sthe Yale-Colgate game
was being regarded as an annual fixture.
Dartmouth Ignored
Princeton did not send the usual in
vitation to Dartmouth this year. and
filled the usual Dartmouth date, the last
Saturday in October, with Colgate.
Dartmouth has not asked about the
game, but it feels the treatment keenly,
especially as II is said to be due TO
pressure exerted by Harvard. which
dropped Dartmouth in football after the
game OF 1912, which Harvard won by
3 to o.
Princeton men here yesterday re-
GREETED greatly the passing OF Dart
mouth as football rival. for the
Princeton Dartmouth contest had come
to be recognized as one of the tTiger's s
home classics. Dartmouth and Prince
ton played their first football game in
1907 and their last contest was that OF
1916, which the Tigers won by to 3.
Dartmouth's last victory was scored in
| 1918 by TO 0. There were no games
between 1898 and 1902, following the
| Spanish-American War. so 1t may be
that Princeton will give Dartmouth
another after-war vacation OF several
/ years.
Relations Opened in 1890
Harvard and Cornell opened football
relations in 1890, and with several lapses
continued through 1915. With the re-
sumption of varsity football this year
Harvard was expected TO invite Cornell
back to Cambridge.
Brown and Yale played every yeai
from 1898 through to 1916, when Browr
won by 21 to 6.
Having been shut out of football re
lations with the Big Three, Cornell ant
Dartmouth some time ago looked abou
for new alliances and caught on readily
with Pennsylvania, which has been II
bad odor with Big Three elevens sine
1t defeated Princeton in 1894, and will
Columbia, once an annual opponent o
Yale in football.
Restrictions at Columbia
/ AS result Big Four has been or
ganized. The plan is for Cornell to pla!
both Pennsylvania and Dartmouth il
this city next fall. Because of restric
tions under which Columbia revived foot
ball four years ago 1t cannot play Penn
Cornell or Dartmouth until 1920.
Among the smaller colleges the revo
luton has resulted In the formation OF
new athletic association. Thirty col
leges will send delegates to an organl
zation meeting in Springfield, Mass, o.
Saturday,