At the first spring football practice scarcely enough men for two teams appeared on the field. This is a deplorable state of affairs, since this year of all years the prospects for a championship team are very dull. We can leave no stone unturned this year, all details must be attended to. There is now no reason in the world for a feeling of over-confidence or indifference toward football.

The spring practice is not for players alone. The head coach must try his new plays and new schemes, and the younger coaches must get experience. Freshmen and men who have not tried for the team before should come out if they wish to keep with the more experienced players in the fall. Now is the time to make a good impression by hard work, as the hard workers will be given the preference next autumn.

Football is a race against time. Princeton and Yale are already far ahead of us, since both have held winter practice and have made plans for a long spring drill. Harvard's practice lasts exactly eighteen days. If we wish to be in the race next fall, we must start immediately, as championships are won only by the hardest kind of work. Thus, it is imperative that more candidates report for spring practice.