Centre College Will Decide Policy About Football Clash With Crimson

Tiny Centre College of Kentucky, excited about the possibility of playing football against Harvard for the first time in 35 years, will decide this week whether its athletic policy will allow such a game to take place.

Walter A. Groves, President of the college, said yesterday he has asked Centre's Faculty Athletic Committee to decide if the school should accept inter-sectional games with colleges of much larger enrollment. The Committee will make a report to the Centre trustees by Friday, Groves said.

The President explained that recent newspaper articles had gotten the whole college town of Danville, Kentucky, very interested in a football game with Harvard. Groves added that he himself had been "giving the matter some thought."

Meanwhile, H.A.A. officials, discussing the possibility of playing Center yesterday, doubted that the college's athletic policy is as de-emphasized as Harvard's. President Groves pointed out, however, that Center has no athletic scholarships, fields a team that is "as nearly amateur as possible," and has forgotten "the good old days when Centre and Harvard were both football powers."

Centre last played in the Stadium in 1922. The year before, led by quarterback Bo McMillan, the Praying Colonels had defeated the Crimson, 6 to 0, in one of the biggest upsets of football history.

This year, with its "best team since 1921," Centre swept its eight-game schedule, led the country in offense.