Captain Emmons has expressed himself strongly on the football question. The changes from present conditions by which he would seek to improve the game are many of them radical; yet the most radical is the one which should find most favor in the eyes of college men: "Let college matches be college matches, for college people, on college grounds." We do not believe that this suggests too extreme a restriction. The publicity which has hitherto attended all collegiate football, has been in part to blame for the abuses which have crept into the game, and wholly to blame for the unnatural position which it now occupies. There has been too great a pressure brought upon the college man to make him forget that his athletic sports are intended for his own recreation and benefit, and not for the gratification of the public's love of excitement. The fame of the athlete, even if confined to his own college, might well be sufficient to make him overestimate the importance of his athletic activity. When this fame spreads over whole sections of the country, and college athletics become the most prominent matter of news in the daily papers, it is small wonder that the natural place of football, which attracts more intense interest than any other sport, should be entirely forgotten.

The evils of publicity are not, how-ever, limited to disturbing the proper relations between mental and physical training. There is beyond this the offensive notoriety from which the press allows no football player to escape. Gentlemanly games are reduced to the same level as professional exhibitions and the tone of collegiate contests is inevitably lowered, by the sensational importance which attaches to them in the papers. For this, it must be admitted, there is some excuse. When college men admit to their sports any one who will pay for the entertainment, and carry this practice into cities where there is no college, they really take upon themselves the function of professionals; and the papers can not be greatly blamed if they call much attention to this incipient professionalism appearing where it would naturally be least expected. Newspaper notoriety, it would seem, can only be checked by the proposed restriction of college games to college grounds and college people, with the falling off in public interest which would surely follow. The restriction might be very difficult to enforce, but the resulting elevation in the tone of all collegiate athletics would be ample repayment.