"Harvard would do well to enter the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association if it should be revived as has been suggested at Pennsylvania," said Glenn "Pop" Warner, famous Stanford, football coach, when interviewed at the Bel- mont Springs Country Club.
Warner expressed the view that if Harvard were to enter such a league she would have to alter her policy of playing only one game away from home each year. He emphasized the beneficial consequences for the game if such a league were restricted to colleges which consistently keep the game on a high level and refuse to subsidize athletes.
The last time Warner was at the Stadium was when he brought the Carlisle Indians here to play Harvard in 1911. "The Indians liked to play Harvard," he said, "and had learned to have a high regard for the teams. At this same time they played every year a little college named Susquehanna which they considered their fodder. Whenever anyone made a particularly brilliant play they called it 'a Harvard play;' when he made a bonehead play it was termed a 'Susquehanna.'"
Warner was surprised to learn that the Harvard band was going to play Stanford songs. "We shall appreciate that," he said.
As a good Californian, he expressed a horror of mud and a wet field, to which, he says his players are unused
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