The agreement between Yale Harvard and Princeton, the "Big Three" (so-called), is ended. Harvard and Princeton severed athletic relations after their football game last fall breaking up the old triumvirate. Now Yale and Princeton have called off their part of the agreement and Yale and Harvard will probably do likewise.

This agreement was over local eligibility rules between the three universities in athletics and over their football schedules. Yale, Harvard and Princeton agreed to play no football games away from home except with each other.

Now that this agreement is no longer in effect, more intersectional games can be scheduled by Yale, Harvard and Princeton. Harvard has invited Purdue and Indiana to play at Cambridge next fall and Ohio State will play at Princeton. While Harvard probably will not care to return to Lafayette and Bloomington in 1928 because of the small gate receipts. Princeton ought to find that no reason for not being, willing to play at Ohio State in 1928. In fact, such a game would draw the biggest crowd that ever saw a Princeton team play, for the Ohio State stadium is larger by 80,000 seats than the Princeton and Harvard stadiums and larger by 5,000 than the Yale bowl.

There have been rumors of a Harvard-Michigan series and Chicago-Princeton series, as well as a resumption of the Chicago-Princeton series. In only the Michigan-Harvard talk was there anything official connected with the rumors, but any one of them could easily materialize.

With the six of the ten Conference universities having stadiums that seat from 55,000 to 90,000 and the nation-wide recognition of the high stand of the Conference in matters of eligibility and recruiting of athletics, the Conference offers a good field for intersectional games with Yale, Harvard, Princeton, which take an equally high ethical stand in these matters in the east.

However, few of the big middle western schools would be interested in football games with Yale, Harvard and Princeton except on a home-and-home basis, such as Chicago and Pennsylvania have, and Illinois and Penn had in their two year series. The Big Ten schools do not need to go east to get strong opponents, to get big crowds or to get football recognition. The Conference race is sufficient in all these respects.

Every football fan in the middle west believes that the leading Conference teams could win at least six out of ten games from Yale, Harvard or Princeton, as they believe they could in the long run from Pennsylvania, Cornell, Dartmouth, the Army of the Navy. But a few more intersectional games would add a lot of spice to any football season. The Big Ten Weekly