At a recent meeting of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Walter, Camp of Yale spoke on "Football and its Relation to Business". A report of the address written for the "News" follows:

"Your secretary has asked me to tell you something of the history of football and also the value of the sport as a business training. It is hard to be asked to tell of football in the home of Haughton, Brickley, and Mahan, but harder still before your press experts for whose diagnosis of plays I have a great respect. If I didn't wish them to recognize a play I would not use it before them until perfected and then I would spring it suddenly! As to the value of football in training for life's work the question is just what kind of a man you would like to make out of your boy. Ninety percent, of men who go into business, it is said, fail at some time or other. Do you wish him to be one of the kind that knowing the percentage sits down and folds his hands or do you wish him to be accustomed to facing hard knocks and disappointments and overcoming them? I don't say football is the only sport that teaches this, but I do say it helps a lot!

History of Football."

"Before the day of organized athletics the class bully was the popular hero. He was always chairman of his class. He was the hero of the Town and Gown riot. In the old days there was the same spirit of admiration for strength and prowess but in different form. Football has had a hard life. But if you go back you will find baseball was decried as a dangerous game and at one time a college paper said that if the mania for this sport did not cease we should be without able-bodied men! You all know there is a side to college life outside the curriculum proper, eight hours for sleep, eight for study and eight hours left in which to do other things.

"How will you use that outside life? What will your boy make of it? There are shrines of all kinds in college before which he may bow. Best, I think, is the one that's built to him of the straight clean back and limb, who bends to no social set, whose vision is unlimmed b y specious show but who 'plays the game' and that's the shrine that shall last an eon or so!

"Requirements of the Game".

"The history of football is one of progress. Forbidden by kingly edicts way back in the fourteenth century and legislated against from time to time it has always survived. The scrub team is to my mind the most valuable in its development of the real eleven. They are the educators and they take their knocks uncomplainingly. Next is the quarterback, for if a team loses him it loses its sense of direction. It's his sand and pluck that tell-his patience to learn the play, to master the detail, even when hard, and after all that's what a man must do afterward to succeed in life. He must stand fast, work hard, learn his lessons even though they seem wearisome. In a word, football is like life and life is like football. It isn't easy sailing, and success in either is like the search for the four-leaf clover-a lesson in faith, hope, strength and hard work!."