Evening star., 1932-09-01
Follow Own Standards.


THE joint statement indicates that
l. the two service schools have not
patched up their differences of
opinion on the question of eligibility,
but that they reached their under
standing in order to avoid a repetition
of the inor6inately latc poSt-season
games such as they have played for
charity during the past two years.
AS each institution continues to fix
its own standards for athletic repre-
sentation. Army might be said to have
gained a moral victory. But since
nothing is said in the agreement of
Navy changing its attitude with regard
TO a player engaging in more than
three years of varsity competition, the
new contract may be more properly
construed as an armistice to be fol-
1ow0d at some future date by a round
table discussion seeking to arrive at
a permanent compromise en- the mooted
question.
Charity to Share Proceeds.
THE first foot ball game of the new
l. series of three. the first to be Off
cially scheduled between the acade-
mics since their 1927 contest in New
York and marking the third time COM
petition on the gridiron will be re-
sumed between them since $780, will
be of a semi-charitable nature. Part
Of the net proceeds will be turned over
for relief purposes, as were the entire
receipts of the 1880 and 1881 contests
held at Yankee Stadium.
Tho statement, as given out by Rear
Admiral Hart and Maj. Gen. Connor,
follows:
Faced with a situation under
which poSt-SeaSon foot ball games
4oll fN1n lrfa In
the season, to the detriment of
academic work at both institutions,
the Military and Naval Academies
have decided to arrange a three-year
series of athletic contests. The ar
rangement is made without change
in existing policies, under which
each institution fixes its own eligibil-
ity rules, but without prejudice to
any future position which either
academy may take in these matters.
The first contest of the series will
be foot ball game to be played at
Franklin Field, Philadelphia. on De-
cember 3, 1882. A portion of the
net proceeds thereof will be devoted
to relief purposes.
Middies, Cadets Pleased.
The announcement of the resump-
ton OF athletic rivalry was received
with much enthusiasm at both An
napolis and West Point and by the
foot ball world in general. Like the
breach between Harvard and Princeton,
which continues to remain unhealed
on the gridiron, the severance of rela-
tions between Army ana Navy was
generally deplored as taking one of The
great climactic spectacles of the sea-
son out of foot ball. And ever since
the 1927 game efforts have been made
by Congressman and by Army and Navy
men to patch up the differences be-
tween the institutions.
Among those who have been instru-
mental in helping to bring about the
rapprcachement between the academies
are Representatives Britten of Illinois
and Fish OF New York, both of whom
have given much time in the effort to
settle the eligibility differences.
Not Entirely Satisfactory.
THE charity games of the past two
l. years, while marked by the intense
rivalry that has always charac-
terized Army-Navy meetings, left some
thing to be desired because of the fact
that they were hastily arranged and
imposed a great hardship upon the
service teams, neither of which came
up to the contests in quite the same
nghtlng plJch 10 WHICH IL was polnCeu
for the regularly scheduled contests.
Even pomp and record-breaking
turnout of washington officialdom and
society that attended the 1880 game,
whose setting was staged by Grover
Whalen, with the Salvation Army as
the beneficiary, failed to satisfy all.
AS gallant as was the effort of the
players, who regarded the contest as
an anti-clinax to a rigorous season,
the general reaction was that it was a
fine show, but that the true spirit and
atmosphere of Arm. Navy rivalry were
missing.
Can Handle About $4,000.
WITH the 1882 game officially sched-
w uled and the two teams in
position to work up to 1t as the
big objective of the season, the sta
dium at Franklin Field, which seats
approximately 1000 spectators, should
be the scene of the biggest gridiron
attraction since 1927.
The breach between the two serv-
ice schools came about in 1928 when
Maj. Gen. Edwin b. Winans, then
head of the Military Academy, rejected
the demand OF Rear Admiral L. M
Mutton of the Naval Academy that
Army accept Annapolis ruling that
a man may have only three years of
varsity competition.