Saturday's football game with Yale will go down into athletic history as a wasted opportunity. It is idle to go into particulars. Harvard clearly demonstrated her superiority in the first half, by holding her own against Yale in spite of the wind. In the second half, though the wind was in her favor, she could do little better, and lost the ball on Yale's four-yard line. The real game was played at that moment and Yale won, for her policy was one of defense and in that she succeeded. The team and the College have then little to be proud of Harvard expects her men to rise to the occasion, to do better than their best when the crisis is reached. In this, the '97 football eleven has failed. The exact cause of the failure is immaterial. The main fact remains that the eleven did not win when the victory was almost, if not actually, in its hands. Now next Saturday will be the final game of the season, and in that game lies the chance to redeem Harvard's reputation. The team is well coached. It showed at times on Saturday that it had much more than average power. Against Pennsylvania then let the play be of the best all the time, and when the instant comes at which success is to be won, there must be no alternative. May it never again be recorded that Harvard reached an opponents four yard line without scoring.