Show ARVARD ATHLETES I II I WILl OT RECEIVE I OFFICIAL LETTER FOR SPRING WORK ORI Vale ale and Princeton Do Not Favor Plan Will Return I I to Competitive Sports Athletic decorations for or Harvard and andale Yale ale sportsmen furnish a fruitful topic or early spring discussion this year Yale Tale hinks th the coming season of sport Is Im- Im enough to necessitate the award of f the varsity Y to the embers of I ler ier baseball and track teams and crew while Harvard bell believes eves In withholding the H H from her youngsters on the ground that hat the season is not quite normal PRINCETON WITH YALE VALE Princeton has flopped to the support of Yale on the matter matler of Insignia leaving leav- leav log ing ng the Crimson the only member of the big three ree combine that will ill not distribute d letters at the close of the season There ere Is no split plit lIt or dissension growing out of the contrary opinions As In the I matter of ot eligibility rules each sHy Is to make malte Its own rules concerning the the theaward award of ot letters Harvard declared itself against the idea of giving the H Ha i a month ago when It first subscribed to toa toa toa a program of formal sport More lately Yale has lias announced that a full Y will willbe willbe be given to those who make malte the Yale I varsity teams Princeton has Issued no no official statement but it Is known that theP the will be delivered to those Tigers who oppose Harvard and Yale In the spring series of meets Yale takes the stand that Inasmuch as sports are to be formal this spring there ls Is no reason why the rules of past years f should hould not be adhered to In consequence tie the Y will be given to the baseball men men who play In the tIle Harvard and Princeton games and to the oarsmen who row against Harvard The Yale-Princeton Yale crew race has not yet been settled but It Is likely that Yale will give the letter to the oarsmen who pull against the Tigers too III In the track games any Yale man who scores a point In the triangular meet of ot the big three or who scores In the inter Inter- intercollegiate collegiate meet will get his Y RULES WILL B BE THE SAME The rules on the award of Insignia that Princeton will shortly subscribe to o are are the same A Tiger athlete who goes against against- Harvard or Yale is credited with hi his P except In track where It Is necessary to score a point Harvard takes the stand that many of the athletes who will compose its formal varsity teams t this tiis is spring would never be beable beable beable able to gain a place on thosa teams in a normal year when competition was as spirited as usual It consequently seems unfair to the Crimson athletic committee to give the give the II H to men who ire are fortunate enough to be competing in an off year of sport and to have the H count as much for an Inferior athlete as It does docs for the he best varsity letter man that ever wore the Crimson Harvard's attitude in no way affects the zeal that will be applied to formal sports thu this spring The value of the H was weighed by the athletic committee committee com corn before It rendered its decision to suspend the awards and it was the unanimous opinion of the members that the hopelessness of winning an H would not diminish the size of ot the squads that come out for the athletic teams The satisfactory proportions of the three major major major ma ma- jor squads substantiates the soundness soundness- of that opinion DATE bATE MAY BE SHIFTED The tentative date for the Harvard- Harvard Yale-Princeton Yale track meet at New Haven may be shifted as a result of Harvard's petition this week It was booked for May 18 but on that day Harvard will hold a military review of Its regiment on Soldiers field Practically all the Harvard Harvard Haryard Har Har- vard yard athletes are members of the college regiment and if It the dates for the track meet and nd the review conflict It will be necessary for these to be ab absent absent absent ab- ab sent from the meet or the review Harvard has asked that the date be beset beset beset set for May 25 at New Haven but neither Princeton nor Yale has yet assented to It On May 25 the Yale-Princeton Yale baseball baseball base base- ball game Is booked for New Haven and the track meet would serve as a counter counterattraction counterattraction counterattraction attraction In case the three universities agree to the shift |