"Neither the Harvard team nor the student body has the slightest justification for overconfidence," said Coach James Knox '93, concerning today's battle with the Tigers. Coach Knox is better fitted to make such an assertion than other members of the coaching staff, since he has followed the development of the Princeton eleven closely and has attended almost every one of its games. "Such overconfidence as they have at the present time," he continued, "probably owes its origin from the comparison of the Harvard and Princeton scores this season, particularly the victories of Colgate and West Virginia over the Tigers.

But Colgate's ability as a team may be judged from the fact that they played a far better game against Brown than did the University only on week later. The former team has also defeated Cornell and held Dartmouth, one of the strongest teams in the east, to a tie.

West Virginia, like Colgate is a stronger aggregation than any Harvard has opposed this year. Hers is a team of veterans who are, at the same time, marvelous specimens physically. The Mountaineers scored two touchdowns early in the first period as the result of long forward passes which were successful by the narrowest possible margin. Forward passes, again, netted the other later touchdowns. All of these passes might easily have failed, leaving the score 0-0.

Moreover, Princeton invariably plays her best game on her own ground; and invariably makes tremendous advances in the week prior to the Harvard game. There is no question but the the University eleven knows as much football as the Tiger team, and physically is approximately her equal. A few breaks for or against either team may decide the issue. Consequently the close student of football is looking for a very close game, while the uninitiated are making wild predictions as to the result.