The foot ball game with Stevens Saturday was the first one of the season in which the relative strength of the Harvard and Princeton elevens might be compared with any degree of accuracy. Taking into consideration, the fact that Princeton played two halves of three quarters of an hour apiece, while yesterday each half only lasted thirty minutes, the score compared very favorably with that of the Princetonians, yet it must be said some of the playing done by Harvard was wretched. The eleven cannot be too severely criticised for their lax and faulty play in the first half, when two splendid chances were offered for touchdowns, but were lost through careless fumbling. Then again the half-backs showed too great a desire for kicking the ball over the line instead of rushing it. The tackling was too high, a fault which seems to be always confined alone to Harvard teams and which will take constant practice to overcome. The fumbling of long kicks occurred with altogether too much frequency to insure success against either Yale or Princeton. In short, the play was much worse than anticipated, and a "brace" must be made at once.