The defeat of the freshman eleven at New Haven Saturday was not unexpected. The team was too light to hope for victory against so heavy a set of players as it had to meet. Taking into consideration this disparity of weight as weil as of experience and the discouragement incident to playing the game on strange grounds and before an unsympathetic crowd, the freshman eleven did as well as it could have been expected to do.
The class has still plenty of chance to redeem itself. Having suffered defeat in foot ball it should bend its energies with the greater determination to the development of a good crew and nine. A victory in base ball and another on the water in the spring will wipe out the recollection of this defeat in foot ball. And they are all that will do it.
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