Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-22
HARVARD GRADUATES
NOT IN FAVOR OF
NATIONAL CONTESTS
Authorities at Larger Univer'
stiles Agree With President
Lowell on Football.
BY WALTER CAMP.
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Copyright. 1927. BY The Great FAILS tribune
New York, Jan. 21.--Widespread
discussion has been stirred up among
college men by President A. Lawrence
Lowelrs observations on Harvard's
football policy. in his annual report,
and some take issue with him on the
question of games away from home.
been directed at Harvards refusal to
play games away from Cambridge. He
says such policy has been alleged to
be exclusive, if not unfair" He calls
attention to the fact that at the last
meeting of the associated Harvard
clubs vote was passed urging that
the Harvard eleven should play with
one Of the great colleges of the mid
die west in alternate years at the
stadium and on the field Of that col
lege. 1t seems to the writer that
when DIR. Lowell attributes this vote
to desire to carry on contest for
national championship in football, he
reads into it something which the
graduates did not intend.
Agree With Dr.. Lowell
It has been the writer's experience,
backed up by conversation with the
authorities at the larger universities,
and particularly those older ones like
Harvard, that there is no desire on
the part of their graduates to have
their teams contend in a national foot
ball championship, but that practically
the majority Of them are quite in ac-
cord with DR.. Loweu's views on this
matter. They are contented with
meeting their main rivals and regard
other contests as more or less Incl
dental. But there is one factor which
bulks large in this desire for an oc-
casional inter-sectional game and that
is the thousands of graduates who go
out from Harvard, as well as from
other eastern institutions, spread out
over the country and have little or no
opportunity of returning to their alma
mater to see even the big champion
ship game. 1t is this feeling which
actuates them to a degree in wanting
their university's team to play where
they can see it again.
DR.. Lowell is right when he says
that football has grown up and it has
not been matter of definite policy
in steering it and building it, but that
it has simply increased in interest on
its own account.
Use of Substitutes
Playing of minor games, DR.. Lowell
points out, requires the use of substi-
tuteS III pldce OF 1lrst string men,
thereby subjecting the university to
criticism. DR.. Lowell explains that it
is necessary, in view of the character
Of the game, to save the best men for
the more important games to come.
1t will be recalled that Harvard's ac-
ton few years ago in placing team
of subs against Brown, was bitterly
resented by the public. DR.. Lowells
reference to this subject probably was
due to the hostility shown last season
by some of the spectators toward the
Harvard team.
Crowd Hostile
On the occasion Of one game In the
stadium the attitude of portion of
the crowd threatened to develop into
a real clash. Occasionally there is at
other institutions slight evidence of
such feeling, but in much less degree,
due, usually to the fac. that there is