Tomorrow the eleven plays the first championship game of the season at Princeton, N. J. The work of the team has from the first been deserving of all praise and they go to meet their first opponent backed by the confidence and best wishes of the entire college. The chief merit of Princeton's team this year is their rigid determination to beat Harvard in some way or other, and their wonderful confidence in being able to do so. They are strong where we are weakest, namely in the halfbacks, and they endeavor to play the entire game in that part care of Mr. Robinson they even surpass the remarkable physical condition usually characteristic of Princeton teams, and this fact alone more than explains their recent defeat of Wesleyan at New York. They fairly played the Connecticut men off their feet in the last three quarters, while at the end they did not seem half worked out, The great disadvantage under which they labor seems to be the large number of new and inexperienced men which they have been forced to employ this year. It is an indisputable fact that experience is a most powerful promoter of success in an inter-collegiate contest, and in foot-ball probably more than in any other game this holds true. To obviate this difficulty Princeton has wisely centred her game on one of her old and experienced players and the entire eleven combine to support him in every play. We had an opportunity of seeing Princeton play this sort of a game last fall, though it was not then carried to so great an extent, and it cannot be disputed that the play is very strong. It is to be hoped, however, that our rush line will prove of sufficient strength and activity to more than counterbalance this strong half-back play. and if it proves to be so we need by no means despair of victory. Princeton's rush is comparatively light, and though her men are correspondingly active they ought to gain no advantage over our forwards. Our men are also gaining full confidence in the full-back, and if he comes up to expectations we can undoubtedly make the contest extremely close, though we may be unable to turn the balance of victory in our favor.

Encouragement and support have been given to the eleven without stint, and though the "croakers" have done still the eleven undoubtedly merits all the assistance that has been given to them so far. It is rather unfortunate for us that the contest should necessarily take place so early in the season, for while Princeton's season closes shortly we shall not see the end before Thanksgiving, and it was difficult to bring the team into the proper condition so long before the decisive struggle with Yale. Whether victory or defeat be ours in the game Saturday we confidently trust that the encouragement of the college will be even more freely game. Every particle of support is needed if the eleven are to compare in this respect to Yale's team, for the typical Yale man thinks nothing that he can do for the eleven is too great if it can only turn success in their favor. Whatever may be the issuer of Saturday's game it is certain that our men are to meet an eleven with which it is a pleasure to play and from which they are to receive nothing but the fairest and most gentlemanly treatment. The heartiest good wishes of with the team on this trip and a joyous welcome will await them if they succeed in bringing back the laurels of victory.