Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-28
RELATIONS IN "BIG THREE
(ny United Prcns.l

New York, Nov. Confirming re-
ports that have been going around for
two years about strained relations be-
tween Harvard and Princeton that
might lead eventually to dissolution
of the Big Three" and an establish
ment of a Big Two between Har-
ward and Yale, an open break was mar
rowly averted just before the recent
Harvard Princeton game.
As has been printed several times,
the feeling has existed for two years
on the Princeton campus that the slide
was being CREASED for the Tigers out
of the Big Three and when the out
look for a successful football team was
so dark at Princeton last September,
the feeling was rather general that il
Yale and Harvard defeated Princeton,
the Tigers would not be given a place
on the Blue and Crimson schedules
next year.
The speech made by Lothrov With
ington member Of the Harvard foot
ball committee and former Crimson
CAPTAIN. at a smoker the night before
the Princeton-Harvard game, in which
he said that Princeton might have to
be crowded off the Harvard sched-
ule next fall, is cold stuff" now and
the Harvard officials later denied that
he spoke for the university.
As an aftermath something very
interesting came out Of 1t, however.
1t is not official, Of course, but it IS
virtually fact.
Harvard is not satisfied with the
radical football agreement said to
have been signed by the presidents Of
the Big Three" and Harvard very
likely will not carry out the agreement
The agreement by which it was de-
cided to hold no football practice be-
fore the opening of the academic year
restricts the schedule to five games
and the resolution to make no trips for
football puts the Big Three parac-
tically in the position Of playing moth
ing neighborhood gaes.
In the recent endowment drive for
Harvard, the western alumni made
such huge contributions that they are
/ in position to demand some consid.
GRAFTON from the schedule makers and
it is understood that enough pressure
has already been brought to bear 20
make it almost sure that Harvard will
l go to the middlewest for a game
either next fall or in 1924.
Some Harvard sentiment holds the
/ Princeton president responsible for
putting across the agreement under
the guisc of something that would
save football" Some Harvard men
cannot see that football is in need of
being saved and they believe that sue
cessful football has been big factor
in making Harvard and providing
! athletics for the university, as foot
ball pays the freight for all other
branches of athletics at Cambridge.
Wilthington's talk didn't do the
Princeton team any harm, perhaps l;
was an inspiration to make them fight
their heads off to show Harvard that
Princeton couldn't be looked upon as
an inferior team.
Strained feelings were apparent
on the field. They have been IN tins
makings for more than year. Tales
were heard on the Princeton campus
that Harvard accused the Tigers 81
playing dirty football and of course
that didn't please anyone at Prince
ton.
The moral effect of saying nasty
things about another football team
q may result in having coach instruc
4 someone TO hurl insults at his team
just before a big game.
The feud between Illinois and Wis
4 consin in the western conference re
suited in some personal shots at III
Illinois team by the Wisconsin coacl
and when they met recently, Illlnoi
y pulled one of the surprises OF the sea
8 son by trimming Wisconsin 3 to o.
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