In our rejoicings over the Springfield victory, we have neglected to comment on some features of the occasion which must not, however, be overlooked. There were several particulars in which the accommodations for spectators were sadly deficient. The seats on the right of the field were so insecurely erected that towards the close of the game they swayed dangerously. If many persons had not prudently stepped down from the upper tiers, and if the excitement on that side had not considerably abated soon after Harvard's second touch-down, there must have come an accident as terrible as that at Eastern Park. That the seats were insufficiently braced should not have escaped the attention of those who had charge of them.

Another trouble was that over a thousand more tickets were sold than there were seats. Part of these, we know, were squeezed out of the management unexpectedly at the last moment; but there is no excuse for anyone's being in such a position as to have to yield to the demand that was made. Moreover, the provisions for taking tickets at the gate were so inadequate that almost no attempt was made in the first rush to collect them, and consequently many tickets were resold. The rush could have been alleviated by better arrangements, especially by stipulating that no game should be played in the morning. It seems to have been the crowd from the morning game that made much of the confusion at the gates. The responsibility for the inefficiency of the police cannot, perhaps, be charged to the football management.

Finally, there ought to have been some system of reserving at least part of the seats so that most of the women should not be obliged to stand, or sit on the ground A number of small sections, like those of the Jarvis field seats, would have secured to those who bought reserved seat tickets some probability of a place to sit down, and purchasers would gladly have paid extra for such tickets.