Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
CAN GET TOGETHER
WITHOUT GRID TILT
Foot Ball Is Apt to Follow
Quickly Resumption of
Other Sports.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

R1NCETON and Harvard au-
r. thorities will not rush to
L follow the mandate of the
student bodies of the two
universities in favor of a resump-
ton of athletic relationship. None
the less, official moves in that di-
rection in a dignified manner and
after a lapse of time consonant
with official dignity may conf
IDENTIFY be expected.
Since Princeton broke with Harvard,
the first authoritative offer of pour
parler must naturally come from Mas
sau. And IL will be surprising IL 1t does
not come in good time
Harvard and Princeton could have an
exceedingly pleasant relationship ex-
elusive of foot ball. In rowing the
Crimson used to come to Princeton and
spend the Easter vacation practicing on
Lake Carnegie. which Is invested with
milder early Spring temperatures than
the Charles River. Dual track meets
went forward amiably and the annual
base ball games held a lot of fire and
drew well. Foot ball is not by any
means necessary to the establishment
of very satisfactory athletic calendar
Foot Ball Might Follow.
And yet renewal of foot ball rela-
tionship-in November, too-might very
easily result from the meeting of Har-
ward and Princeton in other sports.
The complication here is that Har-
ward will arrange no schedule that
does not involve her playing her final
game with Yale. Princeton recognizes
this point and finds no fault with it,
In an informal discussion a year ago
between DR.. Kennedy, chairman of the
Princeton Athletic Board, and Bill
Bingham, Harvard's graduate manager
OF athletics. the Princeton representa-
tive took up this last game question.
He wrote out five-year schedule In
volving Yale, Harvard and Princeton,
in which Harvard always played Yale
last; at the same time the game was
not in every year the last game Of the
Big Three" season. In other words,
the last game in certain years was
played by Yale and Princeton, in other
years by Yale and Harvard. But al
ways, no matter how the schedule
worked out. Harvard's concluding game
was with Yale.
Harvard Interested.
Bingham was very much interested.
and there the matter dropped. Now q
complication within a complication as
regards e-Harvard-Princeton foot
ball Is the fact that Yale must play
Princeton and Harvard on succeeding
Saturdays and Princeton must play
Harvard and Yale In the same way II
the Big Three" are to BE- united in
foot ball under the former system.
DR.. Kennedy'S schedule took care Of
that; he so arranged that successive
Saturday games were played by the
three eleVenS alternately year after
year. Whether Harvard would abandon
this advantage would depend very
largely upon Yale's attitude, and 1t Is
known that the Ellis are getting fed up
on being thrown into battle against
Harvard one week after q gruelinR
Princeton contest.
But that is a point that could be
troned out If the desire to have 1t so
were genuine. An interesting fact Is
that West Points arrangement with
Harvard for November games in the
next four years contains an under
standing that after next year the Army
game could be shot into October In
stead of being played in November.
Whether this stipulation was made
with reference to a possible restoration
OF foot ball relationship with Princeton
the writer cannot say. AS an opening
wedge, the Crimson and old Nassau
may soon play an October foot ball
game.