Although the Yale eleven has disbanded for the season it will be called together again on two occasions. A banquet will be given the team by the alumni as a testimonial of its playing during the past season, and the team will meet in about a month to choose a captain. It has never been customary to elect Yale football captain until some time after the close of the season, but this year the delay will be longer than usual cause Captain Black is considering turning to take the final year of the for year course at Shuffield Scientific School. If he completes the three-year course which he is taking at present, next in he will not return, but should he transfer to the longer course he will be enable to play football next fall. In case he does return, his election to the captaincy seems assured, but if he falls to return, Comerford and Baldridge are the prominent candidates for the position.

Princeton's Prospects Doubtful.

Princeton's prospects for a successful team in 1917 are anything but encouraging, for with but five letter men returning from this year's defeated team, Coach Rush has a very small nucleus from which to build a more successful eleven. Two of these five, Wilson and McGraw, were regulars, playing at right end and tackle throughout the greater part of the season. The other three, Funk, Halsey and Winn were substitutes but will be regulars next fall.

What complicates Princeton's predicament is the fact that this year's Freshman eleven was of very poor calibre and consequently will furnish no good material for next year's first team. What Princeton lacks above all are power guards, for the graduation of Captain Hogg and Nourse will leave a great vacancy in the centre of the line. Funk may be moved from end to centre, filling the Gannert's old place, but none of the substitutes or Freshman guards are equally university material.

Wit Wilson and Winn at the ends and Halsey and McGraw at the tackles, the rest of the Tiger line should be evenily filled out.

The backfield problem is just as serious. Eddy, Ames, Thomas, Brown, Driggs and Tibbott, have all played their last game for Princeton and have left no good substitutes. Haaren, of this year's squad, is a possible quarterback, as is Strubing, captain of the 1920 team. F. Moore, N. C. Nourse, Georgi, Boone and Trimble will all be given a chance in the backfield, but all of these men were on the freshman team and have had experience in big college football games.

Rush to Coach Freshmen as Well

A movement is being started at Princeton whereby the freshman team may placed under the supervision of Coach Rush or his assistants. If the first year team was immediately set to work learning the fundamentals of the Rush system it would save the time now spent in sophomore year.

The general inconsistency in fundamentals which the playing of those men from the class of 1917, who had received their fundamental training before Coach Rush came to Princeton, displayed, has been responsible for Princeton's lack of team play in the crucial moments and consequently the loss of Harvard and Yale games. Next year, however, every man on the team will be a Rush-coached man from fundamentals up and the standard of the team's playing will be far above former years.