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Hanover, N. H., Oct. 14--Eight colleges in the Eastern section of the country have signified their intention of taking part in two post-season football tournaments to be staged in New Haven and New York for the benefit of unemployment relief, according to an announcement released here tonight by E. K. Hall, a member of the national relief committee headed by Walter S. Gifford and chairman of the national Football Rules Committee...
...Young's call found these colleges with their playing schedules completely filled and running in several cases into the Saturday following Thanksgiving. This made it extremely difficult for them to find either opponents or suitable dates for post-season games. Furthermore, as the athletic associations of practically all the colleges mentioned will come through the present college year with a deficit some of them with very heavy ones, it did not seem that setting aside the proceeds of a regularly scheduled game or a percentage of the proceeds of one or more such games offered a suitable or the most...
...Young pointed as evidence of the feasibility of the plan to the decision of the Big Ten of the Western Conference to play post-season benefit games, a determination which was aided by the chairman. He urged that where profits of a regularly scheduled game could not be turned over to the unemployed a special game be scheduled...
...Haven, Conn., Oct. 7--At a special meeting of the Yale Student Council tonight in the Tower Room of Harkness Hall, a resolution was passed recommending that the Yale football team play a post-season game, the proceeds of which would go to charity...
...refusal of Mayor Walker's suggestion was not unexpected. Last fall a proposal for a post-season game in the Stadium, with Harvard participating, the proceeds to be devoted to charity, was declined by President Lowell...