Yard Football Team to Play Nassau Squad

A 29-year football hiatus ended last last week with the Athletic Association's announcement that the freshman team will play Princeton this year, for the first time since 1923.

The junior varsity will also play the Tigers, after a lapse of four years. Both games will be at Princeton the morning of November 8. The varsities meet that afternoon.

Resumption of lower echelon football relationships proceeded from a casual conversation between Carroll F. Getchell, Business Manager of the Athletic Association, and R. Kenneth Fairman, Princeton's athletic director, Getchell and yesterday.

"We met at an Ivy League conference," Getchell said, "and in the course of talk I suggested that our J.V.'s and freshman play.

"Ken assented, and there we were."

One obstacle, though, remained before the freshman game could be scheduled. It bad been proposed that the yearling teams of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton effect a competition analagous to that of the varsities. Thus, when the Harvard and Yale varsities, for example, played in the Stadium, the freshman teams would be playing in the Bowl.

"It was thought," Getchell explained, "that this would help to bind the so-called Big Three together, and would thus strengthen the Ivy League itself."

Yale's policy, however, requires the freshman teams to watch all varsity games. This negated the Big Three home-and-home proposal.

Now, the Yardlings will play Princeton the morning of the Harvard-Princeton varsity game, and Yale the Friday before the Crimson-Eli encounter.

Need for Economy

Economy was the primary reason for the leanness of the relationship in the past. The complete abolition of athletic connections between Harvard and Princeton from 1926 to 1934 did not help, either.

As recently as last year, the schools agreed not to schedule each other in such minor sports as squash and soccer. But the Princeton squash team paid its own way here last year, and the Tiger soccer squad appears on the Crimson's 1952 schedule.

"Princeton," said Getchell, "has promised to put up beds in the gym to accommodate some of our football players. And they are asking each of their soccer players to 'take in' a Harvard player. That's one good economy move."