Jarvis Field was the scene of many an exciting game of football, last fall, between scrub elevens, representing various club tables, or some of our many societies. Just enough rivalry attended the games to make the play exciting, and, at times, really up to the standard of good work. But these games resulted in more benefit to the football interest at Harvard than one could be led to suppose. They did more than to merely amuse the men who made up the contesting elevens, and the score or so of their friends who strolled out to the field to witness the sport, applaud the good plays, and, perhaps, laugh at the many ludicrous incidents which are sure to occur in a scrub game. As a direct result of these impromptu games many men were led to go upon the field as candidates for our eleven of this fall, and many promising players have been found among their number.

It is a mistake to suppose that all the men on the university team are to be taken from past members of the freshmen elevens, No man who possesses the physique requisite for football playing should hesitate at all to work for a position on the team, and no better way can be found for gaining a general idea of the game than by playing with some scrub eleven.

Then let this fall be made remarkable by a larger number of scratch games than ever, and let the numerous societies and club-tables get their men to work as soon as possible, for the season is fast slipping by, and it will be but a short time before the coming of our gentle Cambridge winter drives us into the gymnasium for existence.