New-York tribune., 1920-01-18

Yale Invites
Tigers to Send
Team Abroad
Ellis Would Have Princeton
Track Squad Accompany
Them to England
Special Correspondence

Special Correspondence
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Jan. 17.-Yale's
decision regarding sending athletic
teams to England for rowing races
and track meets next summer will be
made the coming week. The athletic
board of control will receive the re-
ports of the undergraduate associations
at a special meeting, and will then vote
whether to allow the trips or not
In the case OF the track men, tho
board is practically certain to permit
the track and field men to go. The
question has taken a new angle because
of Harvard's refusal to join Yale in
the jaunt. This is new attitude for
the men from Cambridge to take.
Hitherto they have Joined Yale in every
proposed trip to England. Their de-
cision has practically made new his
tory.
First, it has caused Yale to decide to
take the matter up with Princeton and
TO invite the Tigers to unite with them.
Princeton has never before considered
seriously sending an athletic team to
England, as the New Jersey university
is strong in football and baseball,
sports which are mot played in Eng
land, and is traditionally weak in row.
ing and track athletics, two depart
ments Of intercollegiate activity in
given for crossing the ocean.
This year the scene has shifted.
Princeton has one of the strongest
track teams in It's history-probably
stronger than Harvard, and nearly, il
not quite, equal to that of Yale. The
Tigers will make the combined track
aggregation fully as strong as Yale
Harvard unit.
No word has been received from
Princeton since the invitation was
flashed to it two or three days ago to
unite with Yale for the trip, but it is
known that prominent alumni of Old
Nassau are eager for the trip to be ar
ranged, and are endeavoring to assure
the financial strength necessary for
pledging it.
Although Yalc's attitude regarding
the trip, even if Harvard and Prince
ton decline to join in it, has not been
settled, indications are that the Ellis
will go alone if compelled to- A cam
vass of members of the athletic board
of control to-day indicated that this
body is perfectly agreeable to giving
permission for the track team to cross
athletes Of another university.
Yale's athletic relations have been
so uniformly pleasant with Princeton,
however, that it is felt likely here
that the invitation will be accepted if
it is possible for the Tigers to make
the necessary arrangements and sacri-
fees. The improvement of Princeton
track athletics since the advent Of
Coach Keene Fitzpa trick has been
overlooked in some quarters. The
Tigers have defeated Yale only once
in dual track games, but will probably
meet both the Blue and the Crimson
this year slight favorite.
Plans for a Yale crew trip to Eng
land are likely to be upset by the
moving ahead of the Henley to q date
only two or three days from the Yalo
Harvard regatta on the American
Thames. 1t is not known here at pres
ent now this conflict can be met, al
though the Yale rowing advisers have
planned to send a crew across the
| Atlantic if arrangements can be made.
The Yale eight had planned to leave
this country about July l, just after
the YaleHarvard regatta on the
Thames at New London, and to row its
English races about July 10 to Is.
Yale's new coach, Guy Nickalls, is
still in London, it is believed, although
no word from him has been received
here in several weeks. He is expected
to arrive in America about February IS
and to set the rowing squad to work
Immediately. Professor Mather Abbott,
who has been crew coach two years, re-
signed in November to become head
master at Lawrcnceville Academy.