IT is chiefly in the outlook for the future that this game is encouraging. We are beginning to feel the effects of a study of football that is in the best sense scientific. It does not rely upon individual play or upon the experience of a single year, but it seeks to grasp the principles of the game and to develop them from year to year. This has been the secret of Yale's power. She always has brilliant individual players but it is to her traditions, to the atmosphere, of to speak, in which her men are trained, that she looks for victory. Until a few years ago this spirit was never understood by us. Each captain played game as best he could and left us. There were no coachers scientifically trained that could assist the team. With Holden the change began and under Sears, Cumnock and Trafford our grasp of the game has grown firmer; and we venture to predict that it will now continue to grow till we are successful. It would be presumptuous to say that men of the past did not know the game, but the knowledge of each was distinct and came always from defeat. The present policy grasps the principles more broadly, and aims at continuity. If all the men who have started this new departure will still further assist in the development of the game and if the University will appreciate this policy we feel that we shall win, - and that in the near future. It is this hope that makes the game of Saturday significant.