We regret that any discussion of the Yale-Harvard foot-ball game should have been started in the daily press. It has been our aim to confine all such discussions, as far as possible, to the managers of the respective teams. But charges have been made against the managers of our team which honor compels us to refute. It is evident that Yale entirely misunderstands our position in the matter; therefore, in order to clear up all such misunderstanding, we will proceed to examine the facts of the case.

First: Last year the regular Yale-Harvard game was scheduled for New Haven according to the well-understood agreement that each college should play on the other's grounds in alternate years. But Yale urgently requested that last year's game should be played in New York instead of at New Haven. To this our faculty and foot-ball management would only consent on condition that it should not be considered as establishing a precedent, and on condition that Yale should give satisfactory assurance that she would play in Cambridge this year. Accordingly Captain Beecher and Mr. Gill of the Yale team wrote to the managers of the Harvard team, stating that if Harvard would consent to play in New York, Yale would consider the game as having been played at New Haven, the natural inference being that Yale would play in Cambridge this year. The Harvard foot-ball team would never have consented to play in New York last year if they had not fully understood that Yale would play at Cambridge this year.

Secondly: Yale now accuses our foot ball management of not having said anything at the convention held in New York, in regard to the disinclination of our faculty to allowing the game to be played in New York this year. This is utterly false, as the manager of the Harvard team spoke to the captain of the Yale team upon the subject as both can testify.

Thirdly: Yale accuses us of delaying our decision in regard to New York as long as possible. This is unfair. There was no authority in Cambridge to which the management could apply until the appointment of the Athletic Committee a week ago Friday. The managers of our team did their best to hurry matters up, and laid the question before the committee immediately. The committee decided that the game should not be played in New York, as every one knows.

Fourthly: Our management is accused of influencing the committee to decide against New York, thinking they might force Yale to come to Cambridge. This is as absurd as it is unfair and ungenerous. The foot-ball men could not influence the Athletic Committee. The votes of the overseers and of the faculty have time and again been against allowing Harvard to play in New York, and there was nothing else for the committee to decide. In fact they saved time by deciding at once.

Fifthly: Yale claims that under the foot-ball constitution, Yale and Harvard must play in New York this year, inasmuch as they were respectively first and second in the league last year. It is asserted that if Harvard refuses to play in New York, she breaks the constitution, and therefore forfeits the right to choose the ground. The answer to this is plain. Harvard was forced to break the constitution through no fault of her own. Since she is never to be allowed to play in New York, she must always break the constitution when she is second and Yale first. Consequently Yale will always have the choice of ground, which means that Harvard must always play at New Haven-and that is manifestly absurd.

One thing more. The Yale News, the Yale captain, and the Yale management seem to be of the opinion that "the Harvard faculty, if the facts of the case were laid before them in the right light, would withdraw their objection." Once for all, let us state that the Harvard faculty has nothing to do with the matter; full powers have been given to the athletic committee, and their decision is irrevocable. The game will not be played in New York.

The conclusion is plain enough. Since Harvard only agreed to play in New York last year because she relied on Captain Beecher's agreement to consider the game as equivalent to one played in New Haven, therefore, as Harvard cannot play in New York this year, Yale's honor, if nothing else, demands that she should play in Cambridge.

These are the facts of the case as it now stands, and we trust that the matter may be amicably settled without further newspaper interference.