Editors Herald-Crimson :-The statement in the Yale News that a written agreement was entered into early in the fall by which the Harvard '87 foot-ball team agreed to play in New Haven on November 21st. is untrue. We did not suggest a date for the game until Nov. 5th., when we proposed the 21st., but found that the game could not be played on this, the day before a university match with the University of Michigan, as Captain Appleton could not allow our backs to play the day before such an important game, It would have been equally impossible for Yale '87 to have played on that day as several of the men played on the university in the game mentioned by the News. We were willing to play at Springfield or Providence, but not at Hartford, to reach which from Cambridge takes four times as long as from New Haven. It is obvious that the gate receipts at the base ball grounds in Providence would have been much larger than at Hartford. Yale had the choice of Cambridge, Springfield and Providence. We agreed to pay one half her expenses and divide gate money if she came to Cambridge. She chose the former, and as her choice was free we are not indebted to her.

WALTER OAKES.Manager '87 F. B. T.