Army Officials Have None of Stubbornness of Their Equine Mascot, Says "Biff" Jones-Explains Selection of the Cadets

That the Army athletic officials have none of the stubbornness of their equine mascot, but base their refusal to adhere to the three-year participation rule for intercollegiate athletics on sound reasons, was revealed in an interview with Captain "Biff" Jones, Army football coach, in an interview yesterday with a CRIMSON reporter.

Captain Jones, who was in Cambridge conferring with H. W. Clark '23, assistant director of Athletics, on the Harvard system of allotting tickets, explained, "At West Point we have entrance requirements very different from those of the colleges. Each Congressman can appoint only two men. So a candidate for West Point often finds himself unable to enter as early as he wishes, if all the appointments have been made from his district, and he frequently spends one or two years in college before entering the Army. Also many men feel it best to get college training before entering on their more technical military studies. So if we adopted the three-year rule we would bar many of our men from athletics.

"From 1903 to 1907 we conducted our athletics under this rule; if we re-adopt it now, it will be only with a great many provisions. I am afraid we can not make any compromise arrangement with the Navy. This is too bad, as our encounters were colorful affairs, and sometimes, as in 1922 in Chicago, among the best games of the season."

Discussing the Harvard system of allotting tickets, which gives each class good seats at one of the season's major games, Captain Jones said, "It is a very good idea with which to toy around. But our problem is complicated by the fact that generals expect better seats than lieutenants."

Asked if the West Pointers were amused at Harvard's surprise at the allotment of spending money given the cadet corps for their stay in Cambridge last fall, Captain Jones said, "Perhaps they played a bit of bridge on the way up and pooled their money that way. It seems a shame to give them only $1 in Boston and $5 in New York, as is being done for the Dartmouth-Notre Dame game."