The Athletic Committee has issued the following statement in regard to the appointment of W. T. Reid, Jr. '01, as football coach:

"At the meeting of the Athletic Committee on February 17, the proposition to engage Mr. Reid as football coach for next year came up for discussion. The Committee felt that although they were desirous of obtaining Mr. Reid's services they were not willing to pay a coach a salary higher than that received by a professor in the University. It was accordingly voted to offer him $3,500. However, as this sum would not defray the extraordinary expenses necessarily incurred by him, the Committee decided that if the graduates should choose to make good his losses they would not oppose such action."

This statement on the part of the Committee removes all doubt as to Reid's coaching the football team next fall. He will arrive in Cambridge probably within a month, when he will begin to consider plans for next fall. The present arrangement is for one year, but it may be extended to two or even three years.

Reid prepared for College at the Belmont School, Belmont, California. Entering Harvard with the class of 1901, he played fullback on his Freshman football team, which defeated the Yale freshmen 34 to 0. In the following year he was regular fullback on the University team of 1898, which was the first team to defeat Pennsylvania since 1893, and which defeated Yale at New Haven by the score of 17 to 0. The next year he was substitute fullback, playing in both the Yale and Pennsylvania games. In his Senior year he did not play football. He coached the football team of 1901, which defeated Yale by the score of 22 to 0. Reid was catcher on the University baseball team in his Freshman year, was captain of the teams of 1900 and 1901, and assisted in coaching the 1902 team.