Evening star., 1926-10-26

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And a word or two as to the condi-
tions under which foot ball is played
at these three institutions might not
be out of order. Primarily, students
in departments other than those deal
ing with the sciences and arts may
not play foot ball on teams repre-
senting these universities.
Disadvantages in the way of ma.
terial as compared to universities who
can play undergraduates in agricul-
tural, dental, veterinary, commercial
and other institutional divisions are
obvious.
Entrance Rule Strict.
Again, students are not admitted to
Yale. Harvard and Princeton on high
school certificates. They must gain
their Is points necessary for admis-
sion by taking examinations conduct
ed by the college board of entrance
examinations. Aside from Williams,
Yale, Harvard and Princeton are the
only male colleges which impose this
grilling test. Dartmouth, too, has a
rigid entrance system, but it is not
based upon the college board tests,
and there is. the writer believes.
certain elasticity.
Otherwise however, the conditions
under which students may enter the
various universities of the country
are in varying degree much less rig
OrOuS.
Even in the tight union of Il GER
tain conference there is a Discrepancy
in scholastic standards. Apparently
it is much easier for q student to re-
main in college and play foot ball at
some of these associated institutions
than at others. One star of an inn
bnS
into the world to carve for himself q
fortune employs a brand of English
in his Speech that Il big league ball
player-that is to say the average big
league ball player-Would be ashamed
to use one wonders just what that
boy really did learn as an under
graduate.
Defeats Not Surprising.
But to get back to the Big Three,
it is small wonder that in meeting
elevens in October and early Novem-
Der whose players have not been re-
atricted in the matter of preliminary
practice and who have not been kept
out of college because their Drawn
happened to exceed their brains, it is
small wonder, the writer repeats. that
occasional defeats are administered to
This traditional trio.
The really marvellous thing is that
the Big Three. SO called, has been able
10 keep its place in the sun and that
their upsets when they occur are re-
garded as noteworthy events and
source OF vast satisfaction to the
teams that do the unsettinG.
Games taken in the normal stride
of development, he the opponent
whom it may; careful, studious
painstaking work by the coaching
staffs and utter selfsa crifce on the
part of the players resulted in the
development of elevenS for the Big
Three series that technically are in
class with the best teams in the
country.
A case in point is the course Har-
ward has been following since the sea
con opened. Step by step. through
trial and travail. the Crimson has
been working upward and by next
month the team ought to represent
the hest traditions of modern Harvard
foot ball.
Another case is Princeton. Every
one has been humping the Tigers, but
they have not been jarrel out of the
even tenor of their progress, and the
writer is willing to venture right
now that the Harvard Princeton game
on November will be as we'll played
technically and as thrillingly contest
ed as any game played by any
teams anywhere.
Ed Thorp, one of the ablest officials
in this country, who worked the
Princeton-Lehigh game, handed the
Bethlehem eleven a bouquet.
Here was an eleven said Thorp,
(which had made only six points
against opponents up to the Tiger
game and who came TO the Jungle so
much the under dog that every one
expected the Bethlehem team to he
snowed under by a topheavy score.
But when they rOmped out on that
Princeton field they were nothing less
than II devils. No outfit in the
country could have held that Lehigh
eleven back last Saturday; they. were
super men, and every one of them
crazy as a loon. 1t was a great game
and clean as a whistle
Asked about Princeton. Thorp
smiled and shook his head.
I've seen Princeton teams at this
time of the year that looked worse
than this one, only to see them in
November playing unbeatable foot
ball" he said You cannot tell any
thing about what Bill Roper will do
with an outfit and YOU cannot pre-
MT, II, Il