INTERSECTIONAL GAMES

The most interesting game scheduled for tomorrow, outside of the Stadium, is that between Princeton and Chicago University. These intersectional combats are becoming more and more popular; our own schedule includes three of them this year. Yet there is a notable absence of any game with a team truly representative of the Middle West, which is the nearest rival to New England in number and standard of universities. Penn State, of course, is an eastern college; Centre is more south than west; and Georgia is wholly south. Indiana, though a Middle Western college, does not figure in Big Ten championships, and does not represent a large or thickly-populated section of the country.

Last year there was much talk of a game with Illinois. That university is one of the largest outside of the east; in many ways it is most typical of Middle-Western colleges; moreover, it is eager to meet Harvard on the gridiron and Its football record assures an excellent contest. But Illinois, having a prestige and a certain pride of its own, unite naturally objects to playing Harvard on terms that are satisfactory to smaller colleges; namely, in the Stadium without the possibility of a return game. It has, however, made the concession that the return game may be played at Chicago instead of in Champaign.

Our old bogey. Tradition, is the only obstacle to making definite arrangements for a game at Chicago. Such a contest would be greatly to Harvard's advantage: the University's stock there is at present very low partly because of its attitude which is often taken for aloofness and partly because of the old superstition of Harvard snobbishness. The game at Los Angeles two years ago created just the favorable impression which needs to be stimulated in the Middle West. Let us have Illinois on our schedule next year.