Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Slade '28 and Henry Ware '28 are the Harvard members of the joint committee from the M. I. T. and Worcester Polytechnic chapters which will conduct the installation. Following this there will be a dinner at the University Club at which Professor A. D. Moore of the University of Michigan. National President of the Executive Council of Tau Beta Pi, will be the principal speaker...
...plan, as outlined by President Hopkins, and apparently accepted, in theory at least, by Michigan, is to have two university teams of about equal strength, the one playing the home games the other the games scheduled for enemy territory...
President Hopkins own college refused to give his plan a try out and other Eastern colleges, though lending a polite ear, also declined to commit themselves. It has thus remained for the pioneer West to assume the burden of reform. Michigan, press reports state, will put the system into effect only gradually, and is evidently receiving little encouragement from the other Western colleges...
...trail breaker is never easy. It is necessary to tread slowly, and aid is not to be expected perhaps until the trail is pretty well blazed. Michigan is to be congratulated for her courage in accepting the responsibility of leadership in what, on paper at least, looks like one of the soundest football reforms offered in years...
There are also other bases for a football rivalry between Harvard and Michigan. To the undergraduate the prospect of a game in Ann Arbor in 1929 may not be particularly exciting. The chances are ten to one that he will not make the trip West to see the game. But to the Harvard graduate of the Middle West it will offer the rare opportunity of seeing his team in action, and for the undergraduate body of Harvard as a whole it is likely to furnish a justification in the eyes of mid-Western critics who are wont to scoff...