The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-30

in the annual international tourna- ment in New York They are to play off in Chicago in the near future.

Football.
 Every season is the greatest" in the history of football. How this game can be contained even in the huge stadium built for it's accommo- dation a few years ago on scale which at that time seemed to antici- pate the growth of interest for many years, 1t is difficult to see. The Yale Bowl holds S0,000 and that capacity was not enough. The stadium at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, home of Penn, holds at a tight squeeze 57,ooo and that was not enough. Twenty years ago, so runs clipping from a sport page of 1903, there was an enormous crowd of 1s,0oO at the Penn-C Cornell game in which Penn, beaten that season, rose from the ashes" and half murdered Cornell. Franklin Field stadium was opened only a year ago and now it is alto gether too tight to fit the patronage. Harvard played to 240,ooo paid ad- missions and the Army-Navy game at the Polo Grounds, New York, damned the new edifics there notwithstand- ing the miserable weather which is traditional with this attraction,
 California and Dartmouth opened new parks for football, dedicated in each case to the men who went from their halls to fight the war and never came back. Perhaps these widespread enclosures, too, will shrink in few years.
 Championships, happily, are not the principal objects of college foot ball teams. They play for the love of playing and they take defeat with decent composure and courage, re- gardless of whether their luck of their inferiority or both are to blame.
 The University of PittsburE, for in- stance, was defeated four times in four Saturdays. These beatings were taken to heart, of course, but they did not become tragedies and Pitt found satisfaction in winning from odds and against the dope. in the Thanksgiving Day game which was the Panthers' farewell to Pop War ner, their coach.
 At no solicitation of Yale, the fol- lowers of the game in the east wished the championship on tho Eli team because the Blue went through the season victorious in every game. Then the side-line partisans whipped them selves into a pink of fury over the respective merits of Yale and Cor nell. However, neither Yale nor Cor nell claimed the championship and the whole controversy boils down to the fact that there is no champion = ship in a case like that. in which the teams do not meet. In order to ship in q case like that, in which decide e national championship or even sectional championship it would be necessary In most years for tho leading teams to play schedule as long as that of the National league.
 Cornell and Yale, then in the east were not defeated nor tied. West Virginia also had a fine season losing one game and being tied once. Syra- cuse lost only to Colgate and among the victims of the upstate Salts was the University of Nebraska which had beaten Eotre Dame. Marquette uni versity of Milwaukee went through another year without being whipped. Harvard was badly beaten by Yale, Brown and Dartmouth and tied by Tn | obscure college called Middlebury. However, Harvard saved something | by Carl Pfaffman's drop-knick for field goal which won the Princeton game.