Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-09
FIRST QUAKER CITY
CLASH SINCE 1894
Last Contest Tigers Played
There Was With Penn at
Mannheim Field.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

NEW YORK. February 9-In COM
menttng upon the Princeton-Navy game
which will be played In Philadelphia
late next November, an Annapolis dis
patch says that It will mark the first
time In II years that Tiger eleven has
appeared on Franklin Field.
It will. as matter Of truth, be much
longer than that. The last time the
Tigers and the Quakers met was in
1924. and the game was played on Man.
helm Field in Philadelphia. In "a years,
thus, Princeton and Pennsylvania foot
ball eleven5 have not met in contest.
And all things considered, that was
great game. Stretchers, mainly occupied
by Princeton players, we're a feature Of
that conflict, and after the game there
were running fights all over Philadel-
phia, In which the numerically inferior
Princeton partisans shared the beating
which their eleven had received. The
writer recalls one grave and reverend
Princeton professor going berserk and
laying low several adversaries. Any
thing that ever happened in Princeton
and Harvard relations was dulcet COM
ball relations were broken and never
resumed.
Face at Trenton In 1893.
In 1893 the two teams played at the
Trenton State Fair grounds, victory 90
ing TO the Tigers, and the previous year
Pennsylvania won her first victory over
Princeton IN Philadelphia-at Franklin
Field, II the writer remembers correctly.
It was in this game. thanks TO George
Woodruff, now Judge Woodruff, VINO
came from Yale to Pennsylvania and
originated the guards back plays. that
the Quakers forced their way into the
stored big three and made It the big
four.
Old Penn had giants in those DAYS
and later in the Golden Nineties-
Knipe. Hare. Wharton, Mackey-ncy
mayor OF iladelphia-Gelbert, Thayer
and other stars whose fame has never
died.
There win be something dramatic in
the appearance Of Princeton team on
pennsylvania home field TO veteran
PrlncetonianS whose memories 90 back
TO the eighties and the nineties. and
who can tell what may grow out Of it
eventually.
Pennsylvania and Princeton, Of course.
are natural rivals, natural not only
with respect TO propinQuity but 70 ira
oltion also. Walter Thayer. a Penn
back Of the eighties, now a DEPART
Railroad. has letter OF the early seven
ties from q Princeton captain 70 a
Pennsylvania captain accepting $50 and
meals. plus car fare. for foot bail game
IN Philadelphia. and until the break
came in 1894 the two teams piayed
regularly But always beginning in the
eighties with an undercurrent OF hos
tility.
Too Close Together
The only trouble was that the two
universities were too close neighborS
One would fancy this would make for
a close bond of friendship. But t
doesn't Washington and Lee and
v. NJ. /. adjoin each other. but as a
usual thing IL is deemed expedient tina.
the two don't meet in games invoking
physical contact. And il is only recent
ly that Georgia and Georgia Tech have
resumed relations broken by bitterness
arising out OF foot ball contests.
Harvard and Boston College find IL
better TO keep apart and so do Columbia
and New York University. Syracuse
and Cornell are approximate neigh
bors and they don't play foot ball be-
cause Of the feeling that the cause Of
sport Is not enhanced when they do
meet. And now the Army and Navy
are at odds.
Love thy neighbor as thyself." Is an
adnlonition which seems 70 be observed
least o. all on the football gridiron and
in the stands.
In 80 amending the lateral pass rule
that a lateral or backward pass mus.
travel two yards 70 be claSsed as such.
and that IL dropped is a free ball. not.
however. 10 be advanced BY the recover
Ing side, the rules committee meets the
views Of most serious grld.ron thinker.
Likewise the change that mu1 or
tumble Of punt may bc recovered By
the kicking side is very fine thing.
inaSmuch as il eliminates the necessity
OF an ofiicial making decision whether
u dropped ball Is a mus or tumble
Finally the rule that no player OF q
forward passing side who has crossed
the line Of Scriuiuage may i'll any way
with defensive player is q
fun blow at the screen pass. which has
caused so much trouble.
The goal posts remain 10 yards back
Of the goal line and the point after
remains.
II was too much 10 expect that tire
woald do everything reces-
sary III one Winter
.