Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
BREAK OF TIGERS,
CRIMSON MEND|NG
Renewal of Grid Relations
by 1892 Is Regarded
as Probable.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n YEW YORK, May 3-Within a
N comparatively short time the
VI traditional Big Three of inter-
4 collegiate sport will be in proc
eSs OF re-esta blishment. This
is TO say, Harvard and Princeton Will
be meeting in dual sportS-rowing, for
instance. and track-and by 1882 the
two are likely to have resumed foot ball.
The writer bases these predictions
upon at least one informal talk between
Harvard and Princeton athletic author
!ties at which he happened to be pres
cnL, as we'll as upon many indications
showing a tendency of the institutions
at Cambridge and Princeton to make
approaches which, while practically in
direct. seem to possess very definite,
If underlying, motive.
Influences at Work.
Forces which are exerting an inf1u-
ence in the direction of a reunited Big
Three include Yale's attitude toward
the Princeton Harvard break, and very
Importantly the desire of Middle West
Crn, Far Western, Southern and Middle
Atlantic alumni of the two institutions
that the break be repaired. West of
the Alleghanies and south of the Mason
and Dixon line the Big Three social
alignment has never been broken, and
this has its chief expression in Chicago.
where graduates OF the three universe
ties maintain a fiourishing club.
So far as foot ball is concerned,
Princeton would never join with Har-
ward under any understanding that the
game was a casual one, to be inter.
rupted as Harvard saw fit. Harvard
knows this-at least, Bill Bingham, who
is running Harvard athletics with
firm hand, knows it, and so far as the
- Ill :. L..
not regarded the Princeton attitude as
an insuperable bar to gridiron relation
ship.
1t would not be altogether surprising
II years lying not too remote should
see closer big-three organization than
ever before existed. with games pre-
urinary to the late November con-
tests among one another more care
fully graduated with regard to the
character of competition. Already, at
one of the three universities. there has
been detected among students resent
ment at schedules arranged by graz
uate advisers without reference to the
sentiment or to the desires of those
who are to play the games.
Claimed by Both.
AS to Princeton and Harvard. the
election of Edward L. Katzenbach as
Jersey has caused interest both in Cam
bridge and Princeton. For Katzenbacil
was graduated from Princeton in 1906
with an A. B., and from the Harvard
Law School in 1909, from which uni
versity in 1906 he received an A. NJ
Commenting upon this in leading
editorial tire Harvard alumni Bulletin
SAYS several significant things: Mr.
Katzenba chs loyalty 10 Princeton is
not s5lbtracted frc:n his Harvard 10y
atty; he may be %, yeT Harvard man
for being also a good Princeton man.
To think anything else is to assume
that colleges such as Harvard ana
Princeton are at war, or that there Is
a conflict of interest between them, SO
that the gain of one must be at the
expense of the other. Fundamentally,
however, they are partners. not rivals,
They share the same scholarly and edl-
tortal purposes.
gwen sport, in its essential spirit
and meaning, as such colleges under
stand it, is a form of cooperation, and
not of conflict. What is gain for
one college also is a gain for the other:
Loyalty to such college being loyal
to the causes which that college shares
with others of a like mind, extencs
itself naturally to these allies and Sc
finds itself renewed and confirmed. Mr..
Katzenbach'S election is welcomed as a
reminder of these general truths. IL Is
doubly welcome as an application OF
these general truths to the particular
case of the relations between Harvard
and Princeton"
With such trends OF alumni feeEng
noted one may with some confidence
await similar trends among the two
student bodies. without this any re-
pair of the break could, by no posi-
bility, prove enduring.