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Ell in the Bruin's Den

Announcement of the plan to have both the University and Harvard play in Providence during the opening season of the new Brown bowl in the autumn of 1925 comes as a satisfactory piece of news. Brown has long been a respected rival of the University and the relations between the two institutions have been pleasingly friendly. Handicapped by poor facilities the Providence college has been unable to do itself full justice. The increased enthusiasm, financial support, and physical assistance brought by a representative stadium and all that it means should start the Bear on a new and even more glorious career, to be added to not inconsiderable laurels of the past and a memorable tradition of hard playing and good sportsmanship.

So that Yale is very properly going to be in on the dedication. Nothing has been said yet as to what will happen in other years. Possibly a series of games to be played in New Haven and Providence on alternate years is planned. The only danger of such a scheme would be that with West Point also building a new stadium and with the likelihood of others being erected in the not too distant future the Athletic Association may find itself confronted with a choice between an embarrassment of away-from-home games and dropping some old and respected friends from the schedule altogether. With this in mind the Board of Control will be very careful of any guarantees made or customs started. The decision to play in Providence in 1925 is nevertheless a deserved and willing how to a traditionally honored university. --Yale Daily News.

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