Sport writers and sport fans of the middle west are agitating an intersectional football game, a battle between the champion of the east and the champion of the west. Not to be boasting of a championship before it is won, it is nevertheless stating truth to say that the agitators are even more explicit and have their heart set on that game being contested between Harvard and Illinois. Apropos of which we rise to remark with a loud voice and urge the agitators to keep it up.

For a long time followers of football have keenly felt this desire. Especially is this the case with fans in the west who object rather strenuously to their fellow fans of the east resting all too complacently on the fallacious assumption that because their teams do represent the staid old east they play the superior brand of football. Fans in the west have for some time now quite strenuously objected to this unwarranted supposition, and deny that there is any sound basis for it until it is proven in actual play on the gridiron.

Let it be said in defense of Harvard that she has in the last few years displayed genuine sporting blood. Her game with Centre College this year has revealed that and has proven Harvard's willingness to match prowess with teams of the west. Harvard's trip a year ago to California, for battle with the pride of the Pacific coast, furnished further substantiating evidence of Harvard's sporting blood. Better than that Harvard has invited Illinois to a game at Cambridge but Illinois insists that Harvard return such a compliment by matching the Illini at Urbana. Illinois has the same pride that characterizes Harvard.

Harvard may give in on this point and if so the long sought clash between the two may at last be realized. In that event football would come into its own: sport devotees would be privileged to witness a real blood and iron world's series, something a little new but something cleaner, more wholesome, and entirely untainted from professionalism or commercialization. It would be a fine boon to the sport world.

There is no logical reason under the sun why this proposition should not be promoted into an actuality. There is no logical reason why athletic teams of the cast should stand aloof from those of the west. There is no reason why Illinois should not play Harvard this year. A game of football between the football representatives of these two monarch universities would be rather interesting to the sportsmen all over the United States and extremely interesting to the undergraduates at Illinois and our contemporaries at Harvard. Daily Illint.