President Angell's attack on subsidized football in today's football program comes at a significant time. A little less than a year ago small groups of alumni were sending enraged protests to the Athletic Association and demanding an outside coach. But the A.A., convinced that to hire a professional, outside coach would eventually prove inconsistent with the preservation of Yale sportsmanship ideals, adopted a compromise plan in which a Yale graduate head coach was supported by non-graduates.

The case for this plan rested on two arguments: first, that outside coaches would constitute an effective tendency toward's commercialization of football players, and second, that such subsidization of athletics was undesirable. The first point seems borne out to a remarkable extent by an examination of those institutions which have imported expensive outside coaches. The second point is adequately dealt with in the President's article.

But if the arguments adduced by the President are not sufficient to dissuade football fans from a policy of hired athletes, there are other arguments that might be mentioned. From a strictly financial standpoint, the attempt to subsidize football is essentially short-sighted. Big-time professional football has been constantly gaining in popularity; if collegiate football descends to the same plane it will soon be finished. There is not reason to believe that university officials could hire better football teams than could professional promoters. As a result of professional team superiority, no one would bother particularly about the so-called intercollegiate games, and gate receipts would collapse.

With today's game the A.A. plan ends its first year of trial. From the standpoint of gridiron success, the scheme is certainly not subject to serious criticism. Furthermore, we have no evidence to believe that the new coaches have introduced into Yale football any out-and-out commercial elements. From every standpoint, in fact, the new system seems to have achieved a reasonable degree of success, and after a year of operation its chances for permanent success seems bright. But if it should fail, Yale would do best to sell the Bowl as a curiosity and forget all about football. --Yale Daily News.