Evening star., 1927-11-03

good many years, has marked
Il the first game between the
Big Three of foot ball, Har-
va | and Princeton. but instead of
that contest this week two big con-
tests new to the East are to be staged
Ohio state. one of the best teams in
the Middle West. is to appear in the
Princeton Stadium. while at Phila-
delphia. Harvard is due to play Penn
sylvania for the first time in more
than two decades.
Much of interest should be found in
these contests. No doubt both will
he we'll ..layed and be productive of
excellent foot ' but it is doubt.
full il the two together will provide as
much real food for foot ball gossip
as the one that has formerly taken
place between Princeton and Harvard.
There was something about the
meeting of the Tigers and the Grim.
son that was above the average and
there was that about the contest that
appealed to the general public as well
as to the partisan supporters OF both.
Tradition Helps Contest.
Something about foot ball game of
many years standing places it as in
definably above the average contest,
no matter how we'll the average one
may be played, as a splendidly ethical
something is above and apart from
something that has a more material
istic function.
OF course, in the Harvard-Prince.
ton games there was plenty of ma
terialistic action, but also was to be
found something about which partisan
supporters of both schools could
"rave" to their hearts content, while
in neither the Ohio State-Princeton
contest nor the one between Pennsyl'
vania and Harvard is it likely that
much of anything other than what
game will take place.
Good foot ball, it is true, will be
seen. Cheering sections will yell them.
selves hoarse. old graduates will get
up on more or less steady legs and
whoop it up for one or the other Of
the two teams, but few will there be
I'm the stands with the innermost feel.
ing that every movement on the grid
iron is almost as important as a
matter of life and death. It is that
feeling on the part of the alumnus
that causes him to feel that for his
team to lose is calamity and to win
q great and praiseworthy achieve
ment that distinguishes such contests
as those between Princeton and Har-
ward from those between Ohio State
and Princeton and between Harvard
and Pennsylvania.
Old Game Missed.
Just what chance there is for a
resumption of relationships between
Harvard and Princeton Is not known
definitely and probably relationships
will not be resumed for a good many
years, as the feelings causing the
break were rooted too deeply. But
whether the game will be resumed in
the near future, as far as the vast
majority Of alumni Of the two institu.
tions and the foot ball public are con.
cerned it win be missed, greatly
missed. from the seasons schedule.
The game Ohio State and Princeton
are to play Saturday undoubtedly
brings together two fine teams. and in
this respect Princeton is in q better
position than Harvard. Neither Har-
ward nor Penn is in a position to give
their contest the place of importance
that is held by the one in which the
Tiger Ia to take part. Ohio State lost
10 Michigan in game in which it was
generally recognized as being far
stronger than its comparative show
ing indicated, and last week beat Chi
cago, which previously had defeated
Penn. Princeton has yet to meet de-
feat and has among its victories one
over Cornell.
Despite the fact that the Princeton
and Ohio State game probably will be
q better exhibition of foot ball than
that at Philadelphia, it 10 probable
that much greater crowd will watch
Penn and Harvard in their meeting.
il was years ago that Penn and Har.
ward broke off athletic relationships
because of what is said to have been
one of the toughest games in gridiron
history. Many men still interested in
foot ball remember that contest, and
those that do not remember 1t have
been told of it In the newspapers in
the last few days. This combined with
the fact that Philadelphia is a good
foot ball town. probably will fill Frank
lin Field to the overfiowing.
Ge0rget0wn's game with Lafayette,
despite the losses by Lafayette the
last two weeks, stands among the big
Eeet In the East, excepting, of course,
the two mentioned in the above para
graphs. The Blue and Gray is to
face q team that may do almost any.
thing II it gets started right. For in
stance. Lafayette had last year in Will.
son one Of the really great backs In