Because the defeat of our eleven at the hands of the Princeton team was unexpected, it is by no means a discouraging one. For, while our team was clearly outplayed, there is not the slightest doubt that if the conditions had been more favorable, and the team had played as strongly as it has at times this fall, it would have given Princeton even a closer rub than it did. The twelve points by which we were beaten does not indicate how stubborn and close the contest was. The Harvard team played an up-hill game from the start and played it pluckily, and though the eleven proved weak in some unexpected places, and things happened which would have excused a team for going to pieces, Sears held the men well together by his coolness and courage, and by his own magnificent work, and they gave Princeton a hard fight.

We trust the men on the eleven will throw off the feeling of discouragement that naturally accompanies the disappointment of defeat, and still work with the steady persistency that has marked their practice this fall. The college is behind them ready and eager to support their efforts to defeat their other rival, Yale.