New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-05-06
Princeton Gets
Together After
Athletic Row
lax OF Serious Division at
University Is Laughed at
by Professors. Old Grad.
yates and Also Students
Faculty Action Upheld
Majority of Alumni Want
Sports Clean, Even if Vic
tory Must Be Foregone

'tF W ClUCeCOn VeSter-
Gay IN search of information regard
ing the said pending DISRUPTION
OF the old university because of dis
agreement between members of the
faculty aud certain old grads regard
ing tine propriety Of financial first aid
to college athletes revealed three
representatives opinions.
he Official opinion Of the faculty il
mat there is no foundation for any
such rumor."
Inc official oninior Of number Of
alumni who were interviewed - this
split stuff is the bunk"
me offcla opinion of several under.
graduates Is that's all POI; forget it,"
or presumably - equivalent to bunk.
Reyond the fact that a Princeton
graduate named William H. Deyo has
written letter to The Princeton
Alumnl Weekly charging that the
aculty is prejudiced against athletes,
there Is not new line in any Of the
recent rumors. Faculty, alumni and
undergraduates alike remind the in
.efNlewer Immediately that disagree
ment between faculty and alumni over
nc government Of athletics is as old
an institution as college athletics
itself. Ever since tho first old grad
returned to the first reunion, thew
point out, there has always been some
body on hand to tell the faculty Just
what IT ought TO do about athletics
Inc custom is not confined to Prince
ton. but affects also Harvard. Yale, CO.
lumbia and every other college.
1t is particularly noticeable after an
athletic reverse Of any consequence and
since no college team wins ali its games
every college is affected in turn. Both
faculty and alumni insist that the erup-
ton Old Grad Deyo portends nothing
OF greater consequence than the usual
protest against any action Of the ia
Guilty which, in the opinion of any alum
chances for smashing athletic tri-
umph.
Will Support Faculty
Henry Chaplin. himself an alumnus
Of Princeton, former member of the
staff fthe Princetonian, and lead
ing figure in his year was exact and
precise Yesterday IN his classification
Of the upheaval
Mr.. Chaplin. "Tudividua alumni are
opinion of the majority Of the alumni
that the faculty was wrong in suspend
ing men whose way was being paid
through college simply because Of their
athletic ability. UnQuestionably the
majority of Princeton alumni Will sup
port the faculty in-its efforts TO remove
all possible suspicion Of faint from
Princeton athletics
"The argument is Of course that if
Princeton takes this step and Iarva I'd
and Yale do not follow, the Tiger will
be at a Disadvantage. We believe that
Harvard and Yale will follow, and ever
II they do not, we maintain that il
is more important that Princeton
should be absolutely clean of all sug-
gestion of subsidized athletic faint
than that she should win football
game more or less. And don't let
anybody tell you that there was ever
any more OF this subsidized athletics
at Princeton than anywhere else.
Want to Win All the Time
"The opposition will come from {
certain section of the alumni. who
are excellent fellows in themselves
but who hold stubbornly TO the mis-
taken view that all there is to Prince
ton is athletic success The grour
which holds this belief is not large
and it certainly does not represent the
majority Of the alumni opinion; but il
IS energetic, quickly reused into &C
ton and inevitably the first to rs
heard from in f case such as this
These professional old grads are wei
meaning, but all wrong. # they hac
5heir way every college would be
filed with tramp athletes and the bid
.; T.,
would make the New York curb mar.
ket look like q quiet day IN the
Sahara.
IL an, absolutely convinced that the
mass Of alumni opinion. If It were com
pletely Informed on the situation
would support the faculty in every
move It has made or will make. Onl,
the chaps who go off at half cock are
sore, and they don't represent the ma
jority, not BY several jugsful.'
Knows No split"
Professor Christian Gauss, who di
reefs publicity for the university anc
speaks for Dean Howard McCIenahan
who is held responsible for the steE
which has aroused the ire of the grouy
referred to by Mr., Chaplin, said;
There is no bitter internal fight
in prospect. There is no split be
tween the faculty and the alumni. Thu
faculty has acted in the only way pos
sible to keep Princeton athletics free
from all possible suspicion. There i:
more to Princeton tradition than ath
letics and the alumni as well as the
faculty ard the undergraduates arr
fully aware of it. In body of mer
numerically as large as the graduate;
of Princeton there are bound to be
individuals who are sincere in objec
ton, and vocal about it, but that does
not mean that there is any pending
disruption. The whole thing is grossly
exaggerated.
From half dozen undergraduates
members of the staff of The Princeto-
man. athletes and just ordinary stu
dents, there comes this consensus of
opinion:
Forget it. We're good and tired OF
hearing about it. OF course we are
sorry to lose Gilroy and Mcnamara
but if the faculty says they were in
eligible that's all there is TO it. the
rest is hot air. Go away"