The first meeting of candidates for the University and class basketball teams will be held in the Gymnasium at 7.30 o'clock tonight. J. W. Gilles 1L., head coach for the year, and W. L. Hanavan '03, captain of the University team, will outline the plans for the preliminary practice and the subsequent work. On Monday the first practice will be held.

According to the usual custom, the men will be immediately divided up into class squads, and these squads will regularly practice three evenings a week, at hours to be announced in the CRIMSON on Monday. Each squad will be under the supervision of a coach. Line-ups will begin at the first practice and the faults of the men noted in actual play. Both the Gymnasium floor and the regular basketball cage will be used this winter.

The entire squad will be in charge of J. W. Gilles, who will be assisted by W. A. Monten, coach of the Minnesota team which won the championship of the West last year, by W. L. Hanavan '03, W. G. Harrison '05, and K. K. Smith '04. The Freshman team will be under the charge of C. W. Randall '05 and H. H. Bennett '04.

After about one week of general coaching the regular class teams will be picked and the series of games played for the class championship during the week preceding the Christmas recess. In the meantime a smaller squad for the University team will be gradually chosen from the more promising players. The squad will hold short practices, which, however, will not interfere with the work of the class teams. The first cut will be made after the recess, when a team will be picked to play the first game of the season on January 10. The season will be shorter than heretofore, coming to a close the first week in March.

Three of the strongest men on last year's team have graduated, and to fill their places new men must be developed. To this end four of five teams will be maintained throughout the season, and the final team will not be picked until shortly before the game with Yale on February 27.

During the season there will be trips to several of the New England colleges, but the most important trips will be to Ithaca, January 22, and to Princeton, February 12. On the Western trip three games will be played: with Cornell, with the Washington Continentals at Schenectady, New York, and with Williams College at Williamstown. On the second long trip the team will play Princeton, Columbia and the National Athletic Club of Brooklyn. The Freshman team will have a schedule of its own. Spalding's basketball rules will govern all games.

The cups to be awarded the team winning the interclass championship are now on exhibition at Thurston's.