The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16
PRINCETON TOCLOSE SEASON WITH YALE
 NAME NEW COACHES
Harvard Paper Demands Explanation From Blue While Tiger Forces Are Satisfied

, -Yale's decision to place Princeton after Harvard on it's football sched- ule on alternate years was believed to-day to have solved two problems: First, 1t answers the Tigers demand for parity with Harvard on Yale's schedule and second, 1t eliminates every other year a game which leaves the bulldog bruised and weary on the eve of his objective Harvard tilt.
 Princeton has not been Yale's final opponent since 1899.
 The announcement that Yale would engage Princeton in the bowl the Saturday after Thanksgiving this year and every second year there after was made last night by John M. Gates, Yale graduate director of athletics. It over shadowed the i'm Dortance of the coaching selections, announced simultaneously.
 COACHES ASSIGNED
 New members of the coaching staff are:
 Benny Friedman, backfield star of the professional New York Giants football team and former Michigan quarterback.
 Paul ("BuckyD O'Connor, 1880 Notre Dame backfield luminary. who will enter Yale Medical School in September.
 Reginald Root, who left a Yale coaching position in 1928 to intro duce football at the University of Mexico.
 Francis ("Fay") Vincent, captain and tackle of the 1890 Eli eleven.
 Charles Comerford, veteran end coach who had been scheduled to re- yNt Dnf uI fynu t,yt1 coach, was retained in the position in which he has heen so successful. Osborne was reappointcd.
 A LITTLE EASIER
 The schedule change will give Yale q two-week breathing spell before tackling Harvard on alternate years. The change was discussed and ap- proved by Harvard before being pro- posed to Princeton. 7"
 Unofficially it was understood Yale's desire to pave the way for the return of the Big Three" was motive in the shift.
 The schedule change and coaching lineup were approved by the Yale athletic board of control at a special meeting held here Saturday night after the regular meeting last Mon- day had become deadlocked in an all-night debate over suggested coaching shakeup.
 The coaches for 1881:
 Head coach, Dr Marvin M. Stevens, coach for the past two years. As sistant varsity coaches, Adam Walsh, former Notre Dame center and Eli line coach; Charles Comerford, end coach; and Benny Friedman, former Michigan forward pass sensation.
 
 cDucky"D Pond, Waldo CFirpo") Greene. Johnny Goldman, Fay Vim cent, and Bob Hall. Head freshman coach, Pat Osborne. Assistant fresh man coaches, Reg Root, Stew Scott and Paul O'Connor. Cambridge, Mass, Feb 16-UP) Harvard today had said nothing official to indicate that it's feelings had been hurt by Yales decision to play Princeton following the tradi- tional Harvard Yale football game next fall.
 William J. Bingham, director of athletics at Harvard, said he had been informed by Yale authorities that Yale would play Princeton on November 28, 1881. and that "the between Yale and Princeton"
 Harvard will play Yale. as ar ranged on November 21, and will end its season on that date," Bing- ham said.
 Cant Figure It
 The Harvard Crimson. Undergrad uate Daily. said today Yale's action was defensible, but not understand able, and demanded an explanation
 In deciding to rotate it's final game of the football season with Princeton and Harvard, Yale athlet- ic authorities take a step entirely compatible with the independence every university must assume in it's athletic policy" the Crimson said in an editorial caption "A Bolt From the Blue"
 'If, after generations of Harvard and Yale men have looked to the Crimson-Blue game to climax the season. the New Haven college now desires to close with Princeton, none must question it's right to do so," the Crimson said. "The Yale position Is wholly tenable. However, tradition al the Harvard Yale game has come to be in the present century, it is to be remembered that the Yale Princeton game Is older.
 Yale Should Explain
 Yet this new policy, although defensible, is not understandable. For this reason Harvard men do not like Yale's action, Abruptly reversing, without explanation. mutually pleasant tradition. the Yale athletic authorities have made a gesture un- occasionally to be wondered at. Be- tween friends reasons must be frank ly stated. Yale Is obligated to ex- plain this action"