Editors Herald-Crimson.-My attention having been called to an editorial in the Yale News in regard to the '86 freshman foot-ball game, I should like to make some comment on the remarks contained therein. As none of the correspondence has been preserved I cannot give details, but I present the case as I recollect it. The News states of our team as follows :

"In '86 the Harvard freshman foot-ball team refused to come down, the reason given being that the games had been played here so often previously. So that in order to have a game our team was obliged to play at Cambridge. A decidedly shabby performance, by the way, was gone through with by the Harvard management in regard to the financial part of this game. It seems that in arranging for the game at Cambridge a telegram was sent promising one half the receipts to our eleven, and also promising to pay one-half their expenses to Cambridge. When it came time to adjust the money matters the Harvard management would not admit that any such promise had been made, and it was not until the telegram was referred to that they finally decided to keep their agreement."

These remarks give an entirely false idea of the negotiations which were about as follows : A great deal of trouble was experienced at first in arranging a game with the Yale freshmen, and finally Harvard offered Yale half the receipts and half their expenses to play at Boston. Yale then declared that since Boston was not neutral ground to them, they would not agree to this, and all arrangements were consequently broken off. Then Harvard offered to play in New Haven on the same terms. This proposition was accepted, and a date was fixed for the game. But before our team had started, a notification was received stating that Yale would not play on that day, and for our team not to come, no reason whatsoever being assigned for this move. On this, since Yale had broken her agreement, Harvard declared the game must be played here and Yale came on, no agreement in regard to expenses and receipts having been made. After the game, at the request of the Yale manager who said that his team had been so poorly supported by his class that he had not money enough to take his men out of Boston, one-half the receipts and more than one-half their expenses were handed to them without the slightest quibble. Yours, etc.,

GORDON WOODBURY, Capt, '86 F. B. T.