For the second successive day Eddie Casey's mystery program successfully prevented any news of the Varsity football squad from leaking out to the palpitating public. What is going on behind the wooden fence that surrounds the practice field is any man's guess.
Yesterday the reporters were able to accept this as merely an inevitable setback in the pursuit of news. After all, Casey's sudden coldness was news in itself. It was just a case of "Why dost thou act so strange, my Edward, and I hope to Heaven that you quit fooling by tomorrow."
But yesterday the policy continued. Mouthpieces for the H.A.A. "revealed" that the Varsity had a long offensive scrimmage against Dartmouth plays, and that the Varsity was in good shape. No lineups were given out, and the correspondents were invited to guess at what the backfield will be for the Dartmouth battle this weekend. So there's not much to do except pass the buck to the "gentle readers."
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