Saturday's game resulted in a fair and square defeat for Harvard. Our team was outplayed and that tells the story. The play of the Yale eleven was the most beautiful exhibition of the possibilities of foot ball that has ever been seen, and even in the hour of defeat we can sincerely congratulate our New Haven rivals for the good they have done the game. They have demonstrated more clearly than it has ever been demonstrated before that foot ball is susceptible of constant development not merely on that side which is purely mechanical but upon the side in which the head is the important factor.

The game was a thoroughly creditable one to Harvard's eleven. The men worked as hard as men ever worked and they accomplished all that men could be expected to accomplish under such discouraging conditions. No one has anything but praise for the men who made up the eleven. They played as well as they knew how to play. The whole trouble lay in the fact that they have not been taught how to play the game as it is played today. In both individual and team play they acted like men who had been left to work out their own salvation. All who saw the game must have felt that it was a burning shame that men who showed so plainly that they could have accomplished so much should have been left to struggle in a hopeless individual contest against eleven men playing as one, and all through lack of proper coaching. It is this feeling, the protest against the needless sacrifice of excellent material, that gives the single touch of bitterness to our defeat.

The foot ball season would have had its lesson no matter how Saturday's game had resulted. The college shows that it has already learned the lesson by its steady loyalty to the team even after the realization that a mistake was being made in the handling of the men. The defeat must have emphasized the same lesson upon the foot ball men and our graduate advisors. So it is safe to say that the blunder of this year cannot be repeated. The thing to do now is to go forward united and stronger than ever to the victory which we can and will win next fall.