The indications for lacrosse next year are that the team which have to play better than ever college team has done before. In beginning its winter work in the gymnasium then, our team must start off with the clear understanding that they must improve upon the standard of our play in preceding years. Time was when about all the scientific knowledge of lacrosse that existed among the colleges was held at Harvard. Our twelves had a system of team playing when our rivals had practically none; and, in consequence of this superiority, although we were sometimes deficient in other respects, notably running, we won for years an unbroken series of easy victories. Now, however, things are changed. Princeton and Yale now have learned team play thoroughly, and - possibly through our over-confidence - they have been allowed to keep their old superiority over us in the points where we were deficient. If, then, we are to regain our former position our team must work. They must put themselves in as good physical condition as do the teams of the other colleges; and they must, by developing new points in their play, try to recover our former advantage in the science of the game. Every old player who undertakes to try for a position should resolve to give both time and thought to improving his former play. Every new man should resolve to displace an old member by making himself the better athlete, or by learning to play a more intelligent game.