Word: games
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...large institutions is concerned, there can be no decision as to championship or first place. But the effect on the smaller institutions is very questionable. The desire of many of these, when they get on the schedule of a big team, is to strive to win that particular game because of a certain prestige which victory will assure them. Certainly the development of such a team is not normal. Moreover, the temptation has been too powerful to be overcome, and strong players have been enticed to small institutions by means which would not bear publication. It is to the credit...
...There are one or two competitions which are almost traditional and which have a right to a reserved place at the end of the season. Such competitions embrace the Yale-Harvard game and the Pennsylvania Cornell Thanksgiving Day game. There are numerous others among the smaller colleges, but none among the big institutions that I know...
...There is no apparent reason, therefore, why the seven institutions listed above should not confine their games to each other. There can be no valid objection to any two of these institutions playing each other in the first game of the season. There would be schedule difficulties, of course, due to the fact that the season is short and that teams cannot travel back and forth without limit. There would be no danger to two big teams playing early in the season because the development of the teams would be equal, inasmuch as practice starts about the same time everywhere...
...also decided to challenge the Yale Chapter of the Society to a baseball game early this spring. In former years the scholars have organized teams which have played Yale and it is expected that the Elis will accept the invitation...
...Princeton's football organization for the fall of 1919. W. W. Roper will coach the teams, beginning early next September. Spring practice will be abolished, and pre-season practice will be substituted. Also there will probably be no training table regularly, but only for a short time preceding games. There is one radical change in Princeton's schedule to be noted. Dartmouth, with whom Princeton's has played an annual game from 1907 to 1916. When formal athletics stopped, no longer appears on the schedule. The reason given was that too hard a schedule is not desired when formal athletics...