Yale Will Shun Steam-Roller Gridiron Machine; to Abandon Big-Time Football

The so-called "Ivy League" has been blown to bits by Athletic Director Ogden Miller's announcement that Yale will abandon "big-time football."

Undoubtedly a new football circuit, including Harvard and Yale, will be built out of the wreckage of last night's explosion, but in any new regime, two former members of the Ivy loop will not be tolerated. The outlaws will be Cornell and Pennsylvania.

Miller's statement last night did more than reveal Yale's withdrawal from major-league grid ranks. It was an unequivocal declaration that the University of Pennsylvania is sponsoring professional football, and that the Elis want no further grid relations with their Quaker neighbors.

What goes for Penn goes for its big twin brother, Cornell, which could undoubtedly improve on the 50 to 7 shellacking that the Quakers plastered on Yale.

Harvard Will Follow Yale

Yale has reached a crossroad, and has chosen to travel the path of de-emphasis. Inevitably Harvard will have to declare its hand and follow Yale's example, though Bill Cunningham had no statement to make last night. Announcement of a revolutionary change in Harvard athletic policy can be expected within the next few days.

Will Yale and Harvard go the road of Chicago and abandon intercollegiate football? Miller of Yale says no, and Bill Bingham says no. But small-time football has a way of dying on its feet. Take Chicago, for instance. They were playing in Wabash's league before they quit.

NEWS SUPPORTS MILLER STAND; SAYS ELIS ARE BEHIND THEM

The Yale Daily News in solidly behind the stand taken yesterday by Ogden Miller, Eli director of Athletics, Richard Burr Tweedy, sports editor, announced last night.

"I think the student body will agree with him wholeheartedly," Tweedy reported last night, "and I know that the students are still behind the team. To prove it, we're holding a big rally Friday night before the Dartmouth game. We don't think there are any apologies due for what has happened. Yale is no longer in a position to compete with such machines as Penn and Cornell."

This morning the News is running an editorial supporting Miller's decision to schedule only teams which play Yale's own calibre of football.