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WE understand that our Football Team has been disappointed twice this year by other teams refusing to play at the very last moment, after all arrangements had been made. The teams referred to are those of Montreal and Brown University. In the first case the Montreals telegraphed Friday afternoon that they would not be able to play the match arranged for the following day; in the second, Brown informed us at eleven o'clock of the day of the match that their team could not play us at the appointed time. When games are arranged for in this manner, and either team disappoints the other, it seems to us some penalty ought to be inflicted. We would suggest that, as in base ball, the Football Team play for the ball, and that these balls, with the names of the defeated teams and scores painted upon them, be given a place in the Gymnasium; so also, if we are disappointed by any team as we were this year, that the game be forfeited, and the ball ours with the right to hang it up, with the name of that team, and "forfeited" painted upon it. If this plan is adopted, it will tend to make other teams more careful in their appointments, and avoid any more trouble like that incurred this year.

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