Evening star., 1934-11-06
PRINCETON LOSES
OUT ON ROTATION
Crimson, Ellis to Go on Old
Basis in 1936-Nassau
May Revamp Card.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n YEW YORK, November o.
M There will be rejoicing in
Y Cambridge and among Har-
ward graduates generally -
subdued rejoicing, but nonetheless
deep because of this fact-when Of
fetal announcement is made that
after the Big Three" season of 1885
the Crimson will be restored as Yales
final opponent.
There is, indeed, no need to await
official announcement that Princeton
has been ditched out of the rotation
system which the Ellis have been OBJ
serving in the past few years. For the
fact is that such action has already
occurred, and so Harvard men who
happen to see this dispatch may forth
with raise lusty "gaudeamus igitur,"
while on the other hand Princeton
readers may without mistake select
any mt monody that occurs to them.
When Yale, quite surprisingly to
Harvard, announced several years ago
that until and including the year
1885 she would award her last game
OF every alternate season to Prince
ton, 1t was stated that further rotating
arrangements after the prescribed time
limit would be subject to mutual
agreement"
Change Hits Princeton.
NIoW, it appears, Yale has decided,
~ in view of all things, that the
mutual agreement clause shall
not be invoked and that Harvard shall
De The flnal opponent, regardless of
all considerations.
Ihus Is destroyed an ARRANGEMENT
which has been a very happy one for
princeton, and the fact that the
causes of this state of mind have re-
lated to sentiment and to pride rather
tnan. to anything pertaining to the
playing of the game per Sc will ac
cehIuate rather than minimize Old
Nassaus feeling about Yale's change
OF mind or heart, or both.
Yales action in Princeton's favor
was made by an athletic admins
tratlon at New Haven preceding the
present one. At the time, somewhat
70 Harvard's cynical amusement the
Yale authorities tried to get their
cambridge brothers to say that thev
approved OF the move.
Such sanction the Crimson refused
to give. They did say that Yale's
schedule-making was Yale's own con-
Germ and no one else's business in anv
way. 1t would be going far to saw
that Harvard accepted the change
IN any mood OF inward equanimitv.
Dut outWardly certainly no feeling was
eVinced in either word or deed.
Helped Make Peace.
4 S FOR Princeton, she certainly
n was touched by an act of dis
tinguished friendship on the
part OF her ancient rival and recog-
nlzed strengthening of the bonds
which had so long held the two uni
Versities together.
furthermore, it is this writer's per-
sonal opinion that Princeton's willinc-
ness to resume foot ball relations with
Harvard, irrespective of the date upon
Wnlch the game was played was in
large measure due to the favora BILE
strategic position in which Yale had
pIaced the New Jersey university.
IL is not unlikely. in view of DO
htlcal developments. that Princeton
Will see the necessity of readiustinp
her ideas concerning late season foot
bal! games. Yale, as a matter of
course, generally will be the Tigers
last opponent. But the advisabilitv
OF building up an additional Novem-
Der opponent of Importance will prob
ably be recognized, if indeed, it has
not already been envisioned.