Last week we suggested a counter proposal to the Bingham plan for abrogating the present Big Three agreement in favor of four full weeks of pre-season practice. This counter proposal stated that if the "object of Mr. Bingham's report is, for conditioning reasons, to climinate the rigidity of the September 15 date in relation to the vacillating nature of the usual opening of the football season, it seems to us that this might be accomplished through setting the deadline for the beginning of pre-season training at a date three weeks before the first Saturday in October".

Over a week of comment on the part of metropolitan sports writers has done little in the way of refuting this proposition. Rather an attempt has been made to isolate the Princetonian as representing a minority of opinion concerning this important subject on the Princeton campus. Statements have appeared which attributed Princeton authorities with being extremely unlikely to stand forth with objections against advancing the time of preliminary practice. None of these statements carried an ounce of proof.

Inquiry among representative members of the Princeton football squad has shown them firmly opposed to the Bingham plan. Inquiry among representative undergraduates has brought forth similar results.

We feel certain that both the Athletic and Administrative authorities here favor the Princetonian proposition if change there must be. In addition there is strong argument on the medical side that three weeks of pre-season training is sufficient.

In the light of these conditions the solution to this problem which we offered over a week ago still seems to us the most logical one. On the one hand it offers, and this is based on more than our own opinion, sufficient conditioning work to conduct the sport safely. On the other hand it preserves that principles upon which the presidents' agreement was founded, preserves it in the face of the defeatist attitude toward this ideal which was so characteristically expressed in one of our contemporary college dailies as "A Noble Experiment That Failed". --Daily Princetonian