After a long season of hard training the work of the freshman eleven will end today. The game should be more interesting than previous freshman contests for the reason that the result in all probability will depend on the skill and the knowledge of football tactics shown by the two elevens, rather than on pure physical strength or star individual playing, as has often been the case. The agreement by which 'varsity players are excluded from the team is one of the best reforms of the year. Not only does it do away with danger which has attended the playing of three hard games in one week by young and comparatively immature men, but it also gives to the players who have borne the drudgery of a season's work the coveted right to represent their class in the one game for which all the preparation is made.

There is a chance that the two defeats which the 'varsity has suffered may have a tendency to make the freshman class lose some of the enthusiasm with which they should go to the game. This influence must be carefully guarded against. Since 1880 no Yale freshman team has won a football game in Cambridge and the University calls upon Ninety-eight to do its utmost to keep the record clean.