"SPEED THE DAY" OF EAST VS. WEST FOOTBALL--TRIBUNE

Football between representative eastern and western college teams is discussed and urged in the following article, which appeared recently in the sporting-editorial columns of the Chicago Daily Tribune:

East vs. West.

"In support of the oft recurring argument over the relative merits of western and eastern football, George Huff, athletic director at the University of Illinois, recently said to The Wake: 'I think the best eleven of the Big Ten for the last four or five years would have beaten the best eastern eleven. I do not mean decisively, but beaten it. By eastern eleven I also exclude those teams recruited by means no longer approved, but include Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

"'I think we equal the east on defense, while our open game far surpasses that of the east. When Eddie Mahan and Potsy Clark played on opposing teams for the service championship in France, they feared Mahan and stopped him. They handn't heard so much of Clark, but they didn't stop him.'

Why Not Return Games?

"Harvard offered Illinois an early date on its schedule next fall. Possibly it would be regarded as a "practice" game. Illinois did not object to such a characterization. Zuppke would attend to that. But Illionis did ask a return game at Illinois field in 1921, and the matter dropped. Princeton offered Ohio State a place on the Tiger schedule. Ohio demanded a return game the following year. Nothing doing. Western colleges feel their dignity entitles them to stipulate such conditions before accepting invitations to play in the east.

Let's Not Be Critics.

"But we of the west, while recognizing the justness of the Illinois and Ohio State stand, should not criticize too harshly or call Harvard or Princeton provincial. To them, the big thing is to beat each other and Yale. Their schedule is framed with that end in view. So long as they feel that way, they are justified in scheduling contests to attain their ambition.

"Perhaps the time will come-and not far distant--when most of the big eastern colleges will see the interest and tremendous drawing power of a game against a representative western eleven, Speed the day."