South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-05
EASTERN FOOTBALL
CONFERENCE HARD
MATTER TO SOLVE
Almost Impossible 20 Select 10
Leading Schools Without
Big Rumpus.
Ny HENRY l.. FARREIL.)
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NEW YORK, Dec. 4-Proposals
for the organization OF an eastern
football conference aare being made
again at the close of the most sut-
cessfuI seasons in the history of the
gridiron
While much of its old prestige has
been dimmed by the rise of other
cmaller institutions TO place Of pro-
mirence in football. the Big Three
still has enough power and influence
TO be looked upon as q leader in the
east.
without Yale. Harvard and Prince
ton. a conference could function in
the east, but it could not occupy the
, place that the Western Conference
does in the middIe-west
Bob Fisher, the Harvard coach
I speaking unoficially, has expressed
favorable opinion on the confer
ente idea
Bill Roper, the Princeton foot
bah mentor. says IL is not necessary.
Yale. without taking attitude
against the conference. says that
Yale would be reluctant TO join an
I organization.
However. at New Haven, it is in
/ timated that the new football agree
mcnt entered into by Yale, Harvard
and Princeton may lie the founda>
7 tion OF q conference of some kind IN
the future
The big difficulty I'm organizing an
/ eastern coufe; ence would bc in de-
/ hning what constituted tile east
ern section. While there are ten mem
hers OF the Western Conference. the
. territory represented As much sruail-
or than the area now generally re-
gal ded as the east.
Hard to Pick Ten.
Pennsylvania. geographically. =
/ not exactly east. but Is considered
such from football standpoint
Georgetown Is ranked both i'm eastern
and southern circles and West Nir>
ginia is even regarded as an east
err team
Yale, Harvard. princeton. Cornell
/ Dartmouth. Pennsylvania, Columbia
, Colgate Penn state PItsDurs.
/ Washington and Jefferson. Lsfayct-
I be-. Iehigh. Rutgers. New York Uni
/ versIty. Syracuse. Army. Navy
: Carnegie Tech Boston College
Fordham. Holy Cross. Brown.
Swarthmore. and several other uni
versities would DO eligible for mem
bershlp
Try TO pick ten out OF that bunch
and you'd have nice little war ON
your hands over the oues omitted.
There has also been talk of a
( football lands" for the east but
T the coaches IN general scott az The
+ idea as being unnecessary. They
point out that football is not a pro-
/ fessional sport. that IL is not threat
ened by cOmuerciahsm and that IA
/ Guilty hands are the best for its adj
miaistration.
I, Nothing seems to have been wrong
with this season. As long as there il
rivalry between colleges there Will
be talk So-and-So is having his ex-
penses paid at Suchandsuch and as
Ions as there are old grads there
viii be some players getting a help
/ Ing hand. but Il Is not dangerous
enough no be cause for alarm
Big universities like Harvard. Yale
and Princeton. where the proceeds
OF football foot the bills for ali ath-
letiCs. hardly will encourage the idea
OF "a conference. They are big enough
90 select their own opponents and
they are big enough 70 demand only
Eood drawing cards.
with a conference idea prevailing
any Of the big clevens would have
10 book two or three games n year
with opponents that wouldn'. draw
handful OF spectators.
That's an item. too,