Reconciliation

A matter of three years was the splitting point in athletic relations between the U. S. academies at West Point and Annapolis, in 1928. Army allows cadets who have played football at college to play three years at the Point. Navy honors the intercollegiate three-year rule, which says that no matter how many colleges he goes to, an athlete may play only three years of varsity football. In 1928 Army and Navy broke loudly because neither would honor the other's rule.

Last week Major-General William D. Connor, superintendent at West Point, and Rear Admiral Thomas C. Hart, superintendent at Annapolis, conferred in Philadelphia and came to a three-year agreement. Said they: "Faced with a situation under which post-season football games are repeatedly played very late in the season, to the detriment of academic work at both institutions, the Military and Naval Academies have decided to arrange a three-year series of athletic contests. The arrangement is made without change in existing policies, under which each institution fixes its own eligibility rules. . . . The first contest of the series will be a football game to be played at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, on Dec. 3, 1932."

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