Sports of the Crimson

It may be Harvard and it may be Boston," says Bill Cunningham in yesterday's syndicated column to syncopated slush, "but it just ain't football as she's played and paid for and graded by the sports pages of Kansas City, Atlanta, South Bend, Chicago, Dallas, and Wounded Knee."

Taking the Crimson ever his knee thus as an example, the noted football "expert" tries is show that of football in the country in general, the New England variety in the lowest.

Comparison to Minnesota

Writers like Cunningham have consistently ignored a good Crimson football team to write about a few midwinter powerhouses like Minnesota or Michigan, which cannot honestly he compared with it. How does he account for the fact that some of the most talked about teams in the country like Notre Dame and Northwestern are rated behind the Navy team that tied the Crimson.

It took both the Dartmouth and Navy games before Stanley Woodward, another famous grid "expert" went out on a limb and predicted Harvard to best Princeton.

Tonight of the more noted writers was his statement before the Dartmouth game that "almost anything can happen, that is, anything but a Harvard victory."

If the H.A.A. took these writers seriously, it would probably immediately send scouting parties down to the coal mines of Pennsylvania and build up an unbeatable football aggregation, in answer in the following letter received yesterday front a Harridan Fan.

Scranton Fan Writes

"All a interested boozier of the Harvard football team, I would suggest you send a scout to the annual Dream game which will be played in Scranton, Penn., is December between the county and city all stars which is composed of the cream of the Antracite Valley where some of the toughest football is played in the hard coal region, this year are some of the greatest prospects that I ever saw so I would advise you to look 'em over."

Explaining why Harvard would not be likely to scout the coal mines next year, a country writer on the Pinchurst (N.C.) Outlook says that "Harvard is not a football college." Quoting an old tablet, he adds that it was founded so "or children shall not grow up in ignorance."

This writer expands his views by saying that "those who accuse Harvard of taking a superior position in football matters are wrong. The Harvard Dons are merely better judges of relative values in education than authorities who permit football to wag the college. Harvard's position is consistent with a University in which the founders were concerned about their-children growing up in ignorance."