Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-26
BIC 7THREE' AGREEMENT DOES BAR
 FUTURE INTER SECTIONAL GAMES

which appears to prevail in certain quarters that Harvard, Yale and Princeton are barred from further participation in inter sectional foot ball games by the new triangular agreement is not apparently born out by careful reading of the clauses in the agreement which goes into ef-. feet on January 1.
 Under the new plan it is specified that football training shall not be- gin either at the university or else where until one week before the in- stitutions opens and that the sched- uled number of games shall be reduced to a number consistent with the short ened season.
 In the next paragraph it is stipu- lated that no post-season contests or contests for the purposes of settling sectional or other championships or involving long or expensive trips or extended absence from the university shall be permitted.
 With the exception of the visit of the Harvard team to California dur ing the 1919 Christmas holidays to meet Oregon and the present week end journey of Princeton to Chicago. none of the Big Three" have violated the incoming regulation within the
 past decade. Many college elevens from other. sections of the country have in turn invaded the gridirons at Princeton, New Haven and Cambridge during that period and there appears nothing in the new arrangement to prevent their coming in the future un- der similar conditions.
 With the exception of the Prince ton Chicago Series there has not been a home and home agreement in any of these inter sectional games. Con sequently there were no long trips extended absence from the university or other features mentioned in the | new agreement. It has been the vis- iting combinations upon which such ] burdens, if any, fell.
 1 During the period covering the 191E l to 1922 seasons Harvard, Yale and 1 Princeton have played or are sched- | uled to play twenty-eig so-callet 1 intersectional games. With the eXcep- | tion of the Harvard Oregon game a | Pasadena and the Chicago Prince
 ton game for Chicago next Saturda, 1 all these contests have been staged 1 on the home gridirons of the "Bie l Three. Yale has met North Carolip; | four years running at New Haven l Maryland State three times and Wes | Virginia and Iowa once each, Harvard 1 has played ten inter sectional games 1 nine at home and one abroad an( | none of these barring the Oregon i game, could be termed as settling sec tioral or othef championships. Prince l ton has played southern teams al
 most entirely and there appears to b
 no reason why the practice shoul' l not continue so long as the team l from other sections of the countr
 care to try the merits of their foot
 ball play against the Big Three" O I the latter's home turf.
 Wendell Comments on Agreement
 "The triangular agreement entere -I into by Yale, Harvard and Princeto
 does not bar them from participatin Fin intersectional football games in tn least, provided that the games talk place during the regular season an , do not involve long trips on the par
 of the teams of the three universitie That has been my interpretation ( the agreement and [ feel confide1 : that it is the interpretation of bot
 Harvard and Princeton"
 This statement made tonight b
 Professor Clarence w. Wendell, chail :, man of the Yale board of athlet
 control clears up the impression tAs inter- sectional football at the east ern universities will cease when u Ii triangular agreement goes into effe' on January 1.
 Professor Wendell continued: "Tf
 agreement forbids long trips ava from home, but there is nothing in to forbid our playing teams from otl
 CT sections of the country if they a
 willing to come here during the re: = ular football season.
 t "As far as Yale is concerned I a = sure that we will be very glad to pls e Iowa again and I have no doubt tn n an invitation will be extended to the I, to play us here next season. Of cour = I don't know what plans Princett = and Harvard may have, but as f T as the agreement is concerned the d is nothing to prevent Harvard fro
 playing Center at Cambridge aga d next year, or Princeton playing Ch IT cago.'
 d Professor Wendell said that he h. g. discussed the point with Dean L. l. R. Briggs of Harvard and Dean HoN
 ard McClenahan, of Princeton al
 said they concurred in this interpr
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