The result of our game with Yale was not unexpected, and so we were not very much disappointed. On the whole, the season has closed, if not exactly satisfactorily, at least without any violently dashed hopes and expectations, and, except for the intervention of the athletic committee, in a very uneventful manner. Financially considered, also, the season has been successful, thanks to the large receipts at the polo grounds, so that we have not to bear debt as well as defeat. To be sure our defeat at the hands of Yale is tempered by the fact that we scored a touchdown against them, and we can justly praise our team for the excellent uphill work they did in the face of very heavy odds. All through the fall, misfortune seems to have followed the team, and yet they acquitted themselves most creditably, considering that four of the regular players were unable to take any part. But now that the season of 1883 is over, it is just as well to have an eye to the future. While our prospects for next year can as yet scarcely be considered, we believe that our whole system of training university foot-ball teams will have to be greatly improved before we can reasonably hope to gain the championship. We must have more trained players to pick from, we must have more and harder practice, and we must keep good men at work all through their course. Then in time we shall have much better results from just such material as we now have, but which at present is not made use of nor encouraged. The last events of the year in foot-ball will be the final action of the faculty as regards changes in the rules, and the ruling of the convention on Columbia's forfeited games. These will be awaited with interest and we can only hope that they may both be satisfactory and best promote the interests of the sport as an inter-collegiate contest.