Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means nothing, why do 60,000 people come to the Harvard-Yale game annually? Why does that game lead most of the Sunday sports sections the following day? Why does the Yale game count twice as much as any other game toward earning a letter? Why are the Harvard-Princeton and the Harvard-Yale games the only ones which undergraduates and alumni always attend regardless of price or team records? The Big Three rivalry is hardly meaningless, even though the national title is no longer at stake...
...with the accent on Harvard giving up "big-time" football. It would be difficult to think up a better way to keep capable football players out of the Yard. The mere statement that Harvard will "give up the big-time" is enough to send most athletic-minded scholars to Princeton and Yale...
There is also the possibility that the alleged new job program, caught under the kleig lights of publicity, will be misinterpreted and that people will fail to realize that what Harvard is planning to do now is merely what Yale and Princeton have already done...
...people antagonized by the Bingham statement. Harold Stassen and the University of Pennsylvania are answering the alledged slur on their athletic purity. The Yale A. A. released a calm but firm reply to the statement that the Big Three contests didn't mean much any more. No doubt, Princeton, as the holder of the last three titles, will also take umbrage at this charge from the Big Three's cellar-dweller. Perhaps the rest of the Ivy League is perturbed by the fact that Harvard has announced its intention of going small time, but is still going to play...
...SCHEDULE: Unless Harvard gets a stronger team, would you be for or against limiting Harvard's schedule to lesser-known teams that are equal in ability? except for Yale, Dartmouth, and Princeton) For 51% Against 44% No answer...