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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Has the interdormitory system failed?

It has not.

In his recent article in the Illustrated, a Sophomore declares that the defeat of the Freshman football team at New Haven this year was due to the failure of Freshman interdormitory athletics. The team lost because the Yale freshmen had better football material than the Harvard Freshmen. The heaviest man in the Freshman line weighed barely 190 pounds, while the average of the Yale line from tackle to tackle was well over 200 pounds. Harvard's best backfield men were all injured early in the game. These two contributing factors have, unfortunately, been overlooked by the Sophomore who wrote the article.

It is almost unanimously believed by the coaches of the Freshman team that the reason for the defeat was the shortness of the 1918 schedule. Four games cannot serve to give a number of men, who have never played together before, enough experience in actual outside contest, to round them into a compact and efficient unit. It is generally expected that this will be changed next year.

Furthermore, Mr. Bullard suggests that the Freshman squad be choose early, in the season, and that the men remaining be used to make up the dormitory elevens. As a matter of fact this is precisely the system which was followed this fall. the Freshman squad was cut as early as possible, and the dormitory teams played their series while the 1918 first squad worked out its salvation as best it could on an inconvenient, short schedule. The team thus handicapped, could not help failing but still the interdormitory system a blamed by him who unwittingly suggests it ought to be what it is. The system has not failed.  T. NELSON 18