Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-01
PENN STATE MAY GO TO COAST
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/ been tentatively selected as the Cp-
ponent of a Pacific Coast eleven, in
the annual East-West football game
at Pa/dena on New Years Day.
California University, apparently
on the top of the Pacific Coast game
again this season, most likely will
receive the selection to carry the COL
ors of the west into the game that
has become established 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
another trip to the coast. California
alumni in the east would like to have
/ Ohio State make the trip again and
it is not unlikely that Cornell may
be invited.
For a time it seemed that the big
game would not be played this year
/ due to disagreement between The
| Tournament of Roses committee ana
the Pacific Coast conference over the
( financial arrangements
California objected to the plan
which gave the team nothing but ex-
penses, while the committee protited
! immensely from the gate receipts.
After much discussion, the COM
mittee finally agreed to give each o.
the competing teams guarantee o.
S35 900 and to devote the remaining
money to the payment of the new sta
dunn at Pasadena.
Another family row came up when
Stanford booked a Christmas game
with the University of Pittsburgh.
The Pasadena committee complained
that this big game would take the edge
off the New Years classic and sew
oral members of the conference
lined up for support.
Stanford stopped the controversy
with the threat of leaving the confer
ence, if necessary, to stage the game
Sentiment in the Western conference
ia against postseason and all inter
sectional games and if Ohio State
should be inclined to look favorably
ON an invitation to play California
again, the opposition of the confer
ence might make it possible.
Jack Wilce, coach Of ONO StS:e
and one of the most responsible DIN
Gals in che Western difference, does
intersectional games are not goot
thing for college teams.
! "When the opportunity is afforded
to take a trans-continental trip during
! bo[dovs when scholastic work Is not
;rterfered with: think it is good
| thing for the players and for the
gane" Wilee said here last summer
'The trip is an education in itseLI
| 1t fosters better relationship oeVweel
the athletes and it rewards the play
4 ers who get very little compensation
for long. tedious and many times
nainful hours of hard work"
While the "Big Three" already has
entered into an agreement to lesV'
oil intersectional games off the tooos
hall schedule in the future, 1t doe
not necessarily imply that the agrees
ment will become permanent. -,
Alumni of Yale, Harvard anI
Princeton, living out of the easter
radius, NAV have something to, sa!
about the athletic policy, as they have
in the past. 80 -
Other factors may enter into re
consideration of the present pol'c!
Yale, beyond doubt would like to &c
even for the defeat handed them o!
Iowa. Harvard and Princeton ais al,
NAV have some scores they would lik
70 settle and the exalted position o
the big Three" where they, coui.
force teams to come and play them il
+be;r own Yards, no longer exists.