No more unique situation has ever existed on the morning of a Yale game. One cannot even be sure that the two captains will play and if they do, it will probably be only for a short period. In many respects it is a novel year. No Yale team ever started a season with a brighter outlook. The material was splendid, mostly veteran players. The 1908 team, however, has suffered more through injuries, first and last, than almost any team on record. On the other hand, no Harvard team in our memory has started the season with a squad of as little real football experience as this one. It is by no means unique to have a Harvard captain on the side lines, such being the case in 1894 and 1905. It is unparalleled, however, to find a team, deprived of its captain, who at the time was the mainstay of the line as well as the life and spirit of the team, wheel about, and accepting their handicap with superb determination and confidence, meet each team as it came to the Stadium and send them back defeated.

It will be a great game, the greatest of the year. Who can tell whether a Yale team which has only recently found itself can rise to the occasion and gain victory from a Harvard team whose progress has been consistent, steady and rightly timed to meet occasions as they appeared? Who can tell whether Yale strategic ability, the result of long and constant application, can cope with Harvard's newly applied organization of football intelligence and come out the victor?

The final game of the interclass football series will be played between the Seniors and the Sophomores on Soldiers Field Tuesday afternoon.