Imperial Valley press., 1922-11-03
Penn State Said to
Be Slated For Game
At Pasadena Jan. |
United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, Nov. Penn State
has been tentatively selected as the
opponent of Pacific Coast eleven, in
the annual East West football game at
Pasadena on New Year S Day.
California University, apparently on
the top of the Pacific Coast game again
this season, most likely will receive the
selection to carry the eolors of the west
into the game that has become estab-
lished as one of the big classics of the
season.
While Penn State is favored right
now, it does not mean that Hugo Bez-
dek s team will be invited to make an
other trip to the coast. California alum
nj in the east would like to have Ohio
State make the trip again and it is
not unlikely that Cornell may be in
vited
7. For a time it seemed that the big
game would not be played this year
due to "a disagree emtnt between the
Tournament of Roses committee and
the Pacific Coast conference over the
financial arrangements.
California objected to the plan which
-,
while the committee profited immense
ly from the gate receipts.
After much discussion, the commit
tee finally agreed to give each of the
competing teams guarantee of s35,-
600 and to devote the remaining money
to the payment of the new stadium at
! Pasadena.
Another family row came up when
Stanford booked Christmas game with
the University of Pittsburg. The Pasa-
dena committee complained that this
big game would take the edge off the
New Years classic and several mem
bers of the conference were lined up
for support.
stanford stopped the controversy
with the threat of leaving the confer
enee, if necessary, to stage the game.
Sentiment Ill the western Confer
ence is against post-seasOn and all in
tersectional games and if Ohio State
should be inclined to look fa~orably on
an invitation to play California again,
the opposition of the conference might
make it possible.
Jack Wilce, coach of Ohio State and
] one of the most responsible officials
in the Western Conference, does not
| agree with the attitude that the inter.
sectional games are not good thing
for college teams.
When the opportunity is afforded
to take ans-continental trip during
the holidays when scholastic work is
not interfered with, think it is 4
good thing for the players and for the
game Wilce said here last summer
The trip is an education i'm itself
1T fosters better relationship betwee,
the athletes and it rewards the play
ers who get very little compensation
for long, tedious and many times pain
full hours of hard work.
While the "Big Three already has
entered into an agreement to leave all
interseetiOnal games off the football
schedule in the future, it does not nee.
essarily imply that the agreement will
become permanent.
Alumni of Yale, Harvard and Prince
ton, living out of the eastern radius,
may have something to say about the
athletic policy, as they have in the
past.
Other factors may enter into re.
consideration of the present policy
also.
Yale, beyond doubt, would like to
get even for the defeat handed them in
iowa. Harvard and Princeton also
may have some scores they would like
to settlesand the exalted position OF
the Big Three where they could
force teams to come and play them in
their own yards, no longer exists.