EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- The football season of '87 is over, and the championship has gone to Yale. Far be it from me to say that she does not deserve it; the right or wrong of the matter will never be decided. Still there are many of us who have yet to be convinced that the team which represented Harvard on the New York Polo Grounds last Thursday is inferior to Yale's eleven. However, it is useless to repine and to regret the presence of a partial referee; but there are some precautions which we can take which may prevent a repetition of the acts which we all witnessed during the Thanksgiving game. Is there no way by which referees can be taken from neutral colleges-colleges which are not in the league? To my suggestions of this the answer has been returned that there are no colleges in which the standard of football is high enough to warrant our choosing a referee from them. If this is the case, let us by all means have graduates of Yale, Harvard or Princeton for our judges, rather than take a man who is at the time a regular member of one of the competing league elevens. Private animosity is more likely to crop out in the latter than in the former case.

One more suggestion and I close. Why not have two or more men to keep the time and let the referee give his undivided attention to the ball? I say two, because there is less likelihood of a mistake, real or intentional, where two men are concerned. Like the ancient Roman consuls, one would act as a drag upon the other.