"Here we have an American college sport that as yet has no counterpart in the professional world. It is played between teams of young men of similar age and type. Its science is the cumulative experience of years of experiments. It can be coached by its own players or recently graduated players, as we found out at Yale years ago, just as well as by resident specialists if the continuity of its technique is preserved.

"And it would be so coached, with free graduate aid at the tight places, today if it had not happened that the rivalry that began some two decades ago on a large scale, due to the rise of football in the smaller institutions, brought in the paid graduate or the professional coach.

"It is no doubt a highly unpopular, and some will say impracticable, proposal to suggest that a return be made to those days as soon as we can do so, but it is our frankly expressed opinion that this is the course to take. it would mean limiting the opponents of any college that undertook that change to those who did likewise. But if some one leading university one of these days firmly took this stand we believe that enough others would be glad to follow suit to make it practicable. And a difficult problem would have been solved.

"In all this, we are impersonally discussing the system itself and we should like to see the day come again when Yale men gave their services to Yale football teams without charge other than traveling expenses, and the coaching be under the care of younger graduates who could wait a few months in the Fall after graduation, before entering business, to take charge.

"There is here, we think, a principle rather than academic question at stake. We should like to see the three universities mentioned at the opening of this comment work toward this end with the new ruling as to lower salaries as the first step toward it." Yale Alumni Weekly.