Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-08
CR|MSON-EL| TILT
COMES TOO LATE
Usually One or the Other Has
Been Defeated by Time
They Meet.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

~ PEAKING OF HarVardS rigorous
foot ball schedule, the alumni
bulletin, official graduate organ
~ of the University of Cambridge
makes an admission which,
though obvious, Is none the less IN
teresting in its frankness.
.'The West Point eleven" says the
editor will come again to Cambridge.
This game, as was the case last season,
will attract as much attention as the
Yale game itself, and similar state
ment might be made about the Dart
mouth game"
ting in since the war, which, If 1t does
not mitigate the flavor of time-honored
athletic relationships. at least erects
in the public mind a rivalry which must
in the future diminish the Importance
of certain games which have long held
unique distinction as classic.
Already the Yale-Army game which,
until recent years, was played under
quiet circumstances at West Point, oc-
cupies an important place IN the mlnd
editor above quoted freely admits, with
the Harvard-Army game.
Game Is Too Late.
The Yale-Harvard game these years
is played at time when enc or the
other, or both, are likely to have been
walloped by one or more opponents and
SO the sporting interest is mlnlmized.
But the contests with West Point come
at time when the season lies ahead
of all, when hope Is high, expecta-
ton keen.
And even if Yale and Harvard come
I'D to their classic struggle undefeated,
the edge of alumni and undergraduate
interest us less keen than 1t used to
be If only because multiplied thrills In
the course Of a season rob the human
mind of ability fully to react to final
sensation.
In former years these games stood
out as national classics, and the energies
, of q season were bent upon winning
them-Yale-Harva Princeton-Hal-
ward, Army-Navy, Pennsylvania-Cor-
nell Later came Wisconsin,
Michigan Chicago. notwithstanding,
Nebraska-Notre Dame and other rival
ries. which we're all-important In the
sections in which they we're played.
Princeton and Harvard and Army and
Navy have broken relations, and more
than one game nowadays stands as
wholesome rival in point of popular in
terest, and hence gate receipts, to the
classic contests that still endure.
Keep Mind on Money.
The trend these Gays is all toward
the arrangement of schedules that will
emphasize foot balls significance as a
money Garner. This Fall, for example,
the Harvard eleven, after the first two
games, will meet every Saturday a
team which, so far as paper strength
goes, will have as good a chance of
winning as Harvard And Yale is in a
situation practically similar. In the
South, in the Rockies, the Far West
and Middle West games of Importance
as great as any that will be played will
occur regularly beginning october 10.
Princeton, to be sure, still makes a
point of the Yale game and conducts
her season to the end that she will
then be at her peak. But while she
does this, Yale plays several games
which she regards as at least OF equal
importance. There is a feeting growing
among Princeton men that too single
minded a reverance for tradition, espe-
cially when it Is shared pretty much
alone, is unsound. Hence it would not
be at all surprising If in the near flu
ture Sentimen in favor Of a renewal
of the ancient relationship with Penn
sylvania, games alternating between
Franklin Field and Princeton, reaches
point where both universities see the
ACCESSIBILITY of getting together.
The restoration of relationship be-
tween Georgia and Georgia Tech, be-
tween Harvard and Dartmouth, the
thrilling contests that have resulted,
show how completely ancient animosity
may be buried under the will OF friend
ship.