South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-11-27
STRAINED FEELIN G
AMONG big THREE
MAY LEAD TO BREAK
Washington's Talk Followed
by RumOrs of Harvard's
Dissatisfaction.

NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-Confrm-
ing reports that have been going
around for two years about strained
relations between Harvard and
Princeton that might lead eventual
" to a dissolution of the big
Three and an establishment Of n
Big Two" between Harvard and
Yale. an open break was narrowly
averted just before the recent Har-
Princeton game
As has been printed several times.
the feeling has existed for two years
on the Princeton campus that the
slide was beng creased for the
Tigers out Of The Big Three" and
when the outlook for a successful
football team was so dark at Prince
ton last September. the feeling was
rather general that if Yale and Har-
ward defeated Princeton. the Tigers
would not be given a place on the
Blue and Crimson schedules next
year.
The speech made by Lothrop
Wilmington. member Of the HGr-
ward football committee and forme~
Crimson captain, at a smoker the
night before the PrincetOn-H Harvard
game, in which he said that Prince
ton m ght have to be crowded off
the Harvard schedule next fall, IS
"old stuff now and the Harvard
officials later denied that he spoke
for the university.
As an aftermath something very
interesting came out Of it. however.
L is not Official of course, but X is
virtually a fact.
Harvard Dissatisfied.
Harvard is not satisfied with the
radical football agreement said TO
have been s gned by the presidents
OF the Big Three" and Harvard
very likely Will not carry out the
agreement.
The agreement by which it was
decided to hold no football practice
before the opening of the accidents
year restricts the schedule 10 five
games and the resolution TO make
no. trips for football puts the Big
Three practically in the position of
playing nothing but ne gh borhOod
games.
In the recent endowment drive
for Harvard. the wetsern alumni.
made such huge contributions that
they are in a position TO demand
some consideration from the sched
ule makers AMI il is understood that
enough pressure has already been
brought to bear 10 make il almost
sure that Harvard will go 20 the
n1iddlewest for a game either next
fall or in 1924.
some Harvard sentiment holds the
Princeton president responsible for
putting across the agreement unde~
the guise of something shat would
save football Some Harvard men
cannot see that football Is in need
OF being saved and they believe thac
successful football has been a big
factor ir making Harvard and pro-
vidinS athletics for the university,
as football pays the freight for all
other branches Of athletics az Cam
bridge.
Wuh.neton's talk didn't do the
Princeton team any harm. perhaps
il was an Inspiration to make them
fcht Their heads of 10 show Har-
ward that Princeton couldn't be
looked upon as an inferior team.
Strained feelings were apparent
on the field They have been In the
making for more than q year. Tales
were heard on the Princeton campus
that Harvard accused the Tigers o.
playing dirty football and OF course
THAI didn't please any one at Prince
ton.
The moral effect OF saying nasty
things about another football team
NAV result in having a coach in
Struct some one 20 hurl insults n
his team just before a big game.
The feud between Illinois and
Wisconsin i'm the Western Confer
ence resulted in some personal shots
AZ the Illinois team hy the WISCONSIN
coach and when they met recently.
illinois pulled one of the surpr ses
of the season by trimming Wisconsin
20 @.