WE are all the more sorry to record the recent defeat of our Foot-ball Team because we have had to record defeat for them so seldom; and after the brilliant way in which the season opened, we had hoped to keep a clean score. We have been fairly and squarely beaten by a team as strong as any we have ever met, and we are willing to acknowledge that we did not expect to see in them the great improvement they have made since our game last spring. It is not our desire to find any paltry excuse for our lack of success; but we cannot help feeling that we have learned again the very old lesson of defeat from over-confidence. That such was the cause of our defeat must strike every one who reads an account of the game, and notices that during the first-half, with the wind blowing hard against us, the score stood one touch-down to nothing, in our favor. We cannot too highly praise the fine runs made by many of the Princeton team, as well as some very pretty ball-passing, and we should have nothing to complain of in their treatment of us, were it not for the aggravating delay occasioned in the last twenty minutes of the game by their frequent "rouges," - a perfectly legitimate, though a not very frank manner of playing. The superiority of Princeton's canvas-jackets over our Jerseys was very manifest, and we hope to see our team furnished with similar armor before again encountering these or any other antagonists. All the team are much gratified by the kind attention they experienced at Mr. Barlow's hands, and especially by his hospitality on Sunday at Glen Cove. The civility shown them by Captain Dodge of Princeton will long be remembered as one of the pleasantest exchanges of college courtesy.