Word: pennsylvania
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Matches with Annapolis March 28 and with the University of Pennsylvania on March 29 are pending...
...recent article for one of the University of Pennsylvania publications Dean William McClellan, Chairman of the University Council on Athletics proposes an interesting plan for the elimination of many of the evils of present day sports at colleges, and particularly those which arise during the football season. His main theme is that forming alliances of colleges of corresponding size for athletic purposes and thus doing away with the so-called "practice" games between large and small institutions, on the theory that these contests tempt the smaller teams to violate the ethics of college sports in order to foster strength...
...There are seven colleges and universities in the East, which, because of their student enrollment, traditions and other resources, are natural competitors. These may be listed as Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale. I believe that most of the objectionable features of our college sports would be eliminated if in football and other sports, too, these institutions would confine their schedules to games with each other...
...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...
...schedule given out last night by Manager Hibbard. The Brown game has been shifted to June 3 because of the Intercollegiates which are to be held in the Stadium on May 31. No game is to be played with the Boston Braves as was previously announced, and the second Pennsylvania game has been cancelled. The final schedule includes 23 contests, two of which will not be played if the University nine succeeds in winning two straight games each from Yale and Princeton...