Prof. Eugene L. Richards, chairman of the Yale Graduate Advisory Committee, has taken the side of the Yale team captains, and in an open letter has advocated a reconsideration of last week's vote on the rule rejected at that time.

Prof. Richards says, that the importation of players into the law, medical, theological schools, and as special students in the undergraduate department leads -

1. "To the presentation in collegiate contests of a team, crew, or nine, which does not represent the university.

2. It deprives the athletic contests to a great extent of their educational power.

3. It checks the development of athletic ability in the undergraduate department by preventing candidates from coming forward to try for positions which are certain to be filled by graduates.

4. The competition is unfair because in the graduate departments men have more time for preparation for the contests, than the undergraduates, in consequence of the graduate work being more of an optional nature.

5. It makes it impossible to purify athletics from the suspicion that these imported players come for pecuniary considerations, as their equivalents.

6. Owing to the loose system of registration in the graduate departments, it is impossible to apply the provision that a student should have a residence of one year before being allowed to enter in a contest as a university man."

The captains and managers of the athletic teams have now commenced a systematic canvass of the college, and are pledging all the doubtful students to vote for the rejected rule.

A second mass meeting of the university will be called on Thursday or Friday, and last week's vote reconsidered. As the majority against the rule was only 30. it is thought that the vote will be favorable this time.