Evening star., 1933-01-20

weary of the tastelessness Of collegiate
loot ball in recent years" thinks the
Baltimore Sun, with the suggestion that
even Yale and Harvard go at eacn
other in the spirit of two effete insti-
tutlons which scorn the perfection Of
pantherS, bearcats, gorillas and golden
bears, but are determined to show the
Nation how gentlemen should block and
tackle but with the Princeton
Harvard game back on the schedule, all
that will be changed and real human
antipathy will be restored to the grid
IRON" That paper continues: The
Harvard Lampoon will depict Prince
tons athletes as razorbacks, and the
Princeton Tiger will decorate its cover
with Harvard players, each with a
poppy or lily in his medieval hand
The game will be punciuated by shouts
OF Watch for that blackjack and
Don't let him kick you, Saltonstall'
The subsequent Winter will find the
magazines filled with articles by Har-
ward players accusing Princeton players
Of wearing spiked mail under their
jerseys, and at the Princeton Club Of
New York graduates will say to each
other: A guy whose brother is on the
Harvard squad told me that it's their
ambition up there to cripple the out
standing Princeton player every sea-
son. In short. foot ball is itself again,
and. what with the Army and Navy
libeling each other again at the same
old stand, the season of 1884 should be
pretty nearly perfect"
"A breach in athletic relationships"
in the opinion Of the Asbury Park Press,
takes on major proportions in the
minds of alumni and other supporters
outside the student body. The students,
both in high schools and colleges. are
usually Indifferent to the petty wran-
giles, but the adults enter the fray as
though the honor of their country were
at stake. However, after a few years
of hostility, Princeton and Harvard, like
the Army and Navy, have signed
truce. They will clasp hands and then
observe their revived friendship by
battering each other all over the foot
ball field" The Hartford Times holds
that 1.-THE public 4 relieved at learning
that, instead of the conflict of official
statements, there is to be the sensible
combat of the gridiron," while the
Boston Transcripts reports as to the
original cause that "a short circuit oc-
Cured and a fuse blew out, but nothing
happened to hurt the main dynamos."
New foot ball prospects are described
by the New York Sun in the comment
on the breach: Those rough old,
tough old days have passed. Foot ball
is getting so refined nowadays that even
the smoothies contemplate whirl at 1t.
The ball, for instance, is down when
it's carrier so much as touches the
ground with his knee. To establish a
down. it is no longer necessary for the
center to hit him in the midriff. the
tackles to slam him, the guards to
clamp his shoulders, the ends to seize
his legs and the quarterback to sit on
his head. Now. if he crawls after he is
down, the referee will make him apollo
gize. To block an opposing player by
punching him in the jaw Is considered
bad form. especially If an official can
see 1t. Softer manners, naturally, mean
softer language. There should be no
further occasion for complaint when
next the athletes from Princeton and
Harvard meet on the gridiron."