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THE foot ball game which was witnessed Saturday was upon the whole very discouraging for our prospects. The eleven is certainly far from being in anything like a satisfactory condition, and Saturday's game disclosed only too obviously its weaknesses. Extended criticism is almost uncalled for,-the faults of the eleven are too obvious, nor is it our purpose in this column to make any individual criticism. But it is manifest that the condition of the eleven is very bad, and that of late it has made little improvement. There is a marked lack of team work as there was last year, the eleven does not work together, but each man works too much for himself-and that individual work is not always brilliant. The interference is wretched, and few successful attempts are made at blocking off, while the centre is not what we expect or what we can have with the material at hand. The team does not lack snap or energy to any marked extent, but it is this great want of team work and a too great reliance on a few brilliant individual plays that is one chief fault. Above all, this tendency to shift men about-so deadly characteristic last year-is not a commendable one. Last year there was change after change +++till barely a week before the Yale game, and then we won+++ Why the eleven does not play together and why we do not win. And this is exactly what is being gone through again this fall. Yale has the advantage over us in having practically arranged her men, and in having excellent team work. Her playing last year was almost perfect in this respect. Nor, still further, whatever may have been the condition of affairs before the change was made, does the change itself bring about satisfactory results. As we have said, this shifting policy is a bad one-it has proved so one, and yet this the policy again this year.

There is still time left before our game with Yale, not much to be sure, and in that time a decided stride must be taken if we are to make any showing. The outlook today is discouraging and with the possibility of more changing and shifting, great improvement in the future does not seem very probable. But unless that improvement comes and the condition of the eleven becomes very much more favorable, last year's result may be again repeated. There should be no reason for this; the material in the eleven is good and the coaches are all that could be desired. Our present outlook may be discouraging but with proper care and great effort it can be bettered. We can win and we must win, but we must work for it.

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