THE Football Team has ended its work for the present season, and it may be justly praised for the honest and hard work which it has done. Although unsuccessful last Saturday, no one who saw the game can have failed to admire its pluck, and to recognize that the Team gave evidence of more faithful training than that of the past two years. The faults by which both the Princeton and Yale games were lost are such as may be corrected next year if attended to early in the season. The fact that the Yale men outweighed us, man for man, in almost every case, and yet were unable to break through our line, seems to prove that size is not an absolutely necessary element in the composition of the Team. Our rushers were as good as, if not better than, any that Harvard has ever sent into the field, and, although improvement in catching the ball might have added to the efficacy of the back players, they, too, made a very good showing. The Team undoubtedly was placed at a loss by the disabling of its captain early in the year. We were glad to notice that the game of Saturday was an improvement on the Yale game last year, both in the brutality in the hostile eleven and in the disposition to quarrel, and we hope that this spirit may direct our future contests with Yale. With a record of six games played and only two defeats, we think the Football Team need not be discouraged, but may look forward to a time when Harvard shall again be champion of the country, as she is now of Canada.
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GAIN OF FIFTY-NINE.