We have never heard a complaint made that there is not variety enough in the costumes of the university eleven; but we have heard it regretted and especially by the fair supporters of Harvard, that the uniforms of the respective members of the team are so entirely different. This of course is of very little consequence compared with the playing of the eleven. We should in fact, be only too happy to see our eleven victorious this year clad in all the colors of the rainbow, still it seems only fair to the subscribers to the foot-ball team that they should have a decent looking eleven to show their friends as the one representing Harvard, when they take them to see a game. Of course in the present unsettled condition of the eleven this is impossible and in the matches which are played now, we expect to see a team on the field, every man in which has on a different colored pair of stockings from his neighbor; but in the intercollegiate games there seems to be no reason why this should be so, and it always has been so, or at least very nearly so. Columbia and Princeton, certainly, if not Yale, always put a better looking eleven, as far as uniforms are concerned, on the field than we do. We hope then when the Columbia game is played here, that the Harvard eleven will both play well and look well together.
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