Dr. Mendell and Tad Jones of Yale seem to be on the right track in proposing to limit the power of the most purely professional element, the coaches. Modern football tends to assume the aspect of a contest of skill between two experts who use college boys as their instruments of play instead of chessmen or cards. At Yale they are not talking of keeping the coaches away from the game and letting the players play it for themselves. This would, of course, give an advantage to the older and larger institutions with a longer and sounder athletic tradition; but it may be a suggestion in the right direction. Modern tendencies are illustrated by the outcry at Pittsburgh over Major Warner's new contract with Stanford. The collegians take this as seriously as if, for example, the French, impressed by Mr. Hughes's showing at the late conference, had hired him to coach their diplomats for the next big game with England; yet Major Warner works for a living and has a right--ruling out considerations of the length of his Pittsburgh contract--to advance himself in his profession.

There are other serious evils connected with the passionate interest and heavy gate receipts of big games, but so long as hundreds of thousands of people are determined to see Yale play Harvard it is hard to see how the over-emphasis on college games, with their attendant harm to the amateur spirit, can be prevented. --"New York Times."