Harvard lost again to Yale at Hampden Park, Springfield, on Saturday by a score of 6 to 0. It was a magnificent game from start to finish and with the defeat comes the feeling of pride in the eleven which represented the college so nobly. Nothing but praise is heard for the honorable, scientific, straightforward game which the eleven put up. Considered in comparison with the games of the season it stands in striking contrast, while the work of the coaches during the past ten days has shown that Harvard has at last found graduates among her ranks, who are in every way men, to whom can be trusted safely the interests of the eleven. It was through no fault of theirs that the game was lost; while through their almost superhuman efforts and the wonderful brace taken by the players themselves, Harvard was able to make such a brilliant showing.

The day was perfect, not so warm as to make the playing listless and not so cold that spectators could not thoroughly enjoy every moment of the play. The seating arrangements could not have been made better. One took real enjoyment in the thought that he need not hurry to the game in order to get a seat, while the confusion saved and the satisfaction given to everybody, must have repaid the management for their care and inconvenience in the sale of tickets. They have started a custom which future managements can well afford to keep up. The singing of the Glee Club, while the crowds were waiting for the elevens to appear and during the intermission between the halves, was also a novelty which seemed to find universal favor,

The work of the eleven was fully up to the expectation of the college. It must be admitted, however, that Yale's was not. In touching upon this point one treads on delicate ground, for to accuse a victorious rival of ungentlemanly playing is not, as a rule, showing a truly sportsmanlike spirit. In this case, however when Yale's tactics were so apparent; when the rough and unmannerly conduct was not the exception, but was main fained throughout the game, it seems only fair to the Harvard players to refer to the matter. The treatment which Gray and Brewer received particularly after making fair catches, was not only entirely unnecessary, but betrayed the aims by which the men in question hoped to help win the game. The way in which a certain Yale rusher, with no provocation whatever, kicked Upton in the head, causing an injury which eventually made him retire from the field, is not the kind of football that has characterized Harvard and Yale games in the past few years. It is with the deepest regret that one notices this revival of an old custom which has long since been classed as unworthy of gentlemen and which in everybody's opinion was thought to have been effectually done away with, at least in games between Harvard and Yale.

"Honor, to whom honor is due", however, is a good maxim. Much as everyone regrets that anything should occur to bring in a disagreeable feature into Saturday's game. To one will depreciate the good points in Yale's playing. It was evident that she was much taken by surprise by Harvard's strength, but her work in the latter part of the game was very effective. She used the V and turtle-back often for short gains. The quickness with which the ball was put in play was also a pretty feature of their excellent team play, while Laurie Bliss's brilliant individual work has seldom, if ever, been equalled on a football field. His running was phenomenal, while the way he crept out of the very bottom of a wedge was a mystery to every one. Later when Harvard was weakened by the loss of both Emmons and Upton, he was quick to seize his opportunity and made the run which virtually won the game. Butter-worth's punting was long and sure, while the Yale ends were always on hand when the ball was caught, though what they did afterward has already been alluded to. Taking Yale's team as a whole, it showed a strongly developed defensive game, marred only by frequent fumblings. Their interference was most effective in the latter part of the game, and many of their longest runs were made through L. Bliss's brilliant individual work.

It was a bitter disappointment when Yale won the toss and opened the game with a gain of ten yards. Some feared a repetition of last year's scenes but none followed Harvard immediately showed her mettle by forcing Yale to kick, and from that moment until Yale had succeeded in laying up Emmons and Upton, the honors were even. After that Yale clearly had the advantage. Harvard put up a strong defensive game, while the breaking through and tackling was superb. Yale's interference succumbed time and time again to the hard low tackles. Every man played the game of his life. The pluck and determination which Emmons and Upton showed cannot be praised too highly. While Upton made his long run around the end he was playing almost mechanically, the hard treatment he had been given having made him nearly insensible. Trafford signaled but he did not hear. He signaled again and Upton just caught enough to know what was expected of him. The ball was snapped back and he went through his motions but he was not conscious of them. When taken to the quarters he remembered nothing of the play, merely that he had been signaled.

The introduction of a new opening play by Harvard was made in the second half when Harvard started with the ball. Captain Trafford stood in the middle of the field alone. Ten yards behind him at some distance to the right Waters, Mackie, Lewis and Emmons formed one in front of the other and headed by Waters. On the left of Trafford 5 yards to the rear and off to one side were the rest of the men with the exception of Lake who stood in a direct line back of the ball. At the given signal Waters' squad started and went tearing down the field by Trafford. They were met by the other squad just where the ball was. Lake closed in behind and was passed the ball and then the whole mass of men rushed forward, as it were, from a flying start. The momentum was tremendous and the wedge went through the Yale men for twenty yards before they could stop it. It was one of the prettiest plays of the afternoon and was worked successfully once more during the game.

The decision given by Mr. Coffin in the first half, by which Harvard was kept from a touchdown was, in the opinion not only of Harvard men, but of Yale and Princeton enthusiasts, manifestly unjust. However sincere Mr. Coffin was he alone knows, Harvard does not accuse him of malice in his decision, but she does regret most betterly that while the mass of spectators admitted the touchdown, he should be one of the very few to deny its validity.

It is a defeat for us nevertheless and Harvard looks upon it as such, and will bear it worthily. That the team was a failure, however, she will not admit. Every man who witnessed that game was and is proud of the eleven and has nothing but the deepest respect for the men who composed it. The whole college, too, is grateful beyond measure for what each and every one of the coachers has done, to Arthur Cumnock and Perry Trafford particularly, though the others are deserving of unlimited praise. A new era in our football history has begun, an era when our graduates come back, and with loyal love to their college, give their undivided time for Harvard's success.

The teams lined up as follows:

YALE. POSITIONS HARVARD.

Hinkey, left Ends right, Hallowell

Winter, left Tackles right, Newell

McCrea, left Guards right, Mackie

Stillman, Centre Lewis

Hickok, right Guards left, Waters

Wallis, right, Tackles left, Upton

Wallis, right, Tackles left, Mason

Wallis, right, Tackles left, Ishea

Greenway. right Ends left, Emmons

Greenway. right Ends left, Mason

McCormick Quar.-backs Trafford

C. D. Bliss, right half-backs left, Gray

L T. Bliss, left half-backs right, Lake

Butterworth full-backs Brewer

Referee, Moffatt of Princeton. Umpire. S. V. Coffin of Wesleyan. (Continued in Supplement.)