At a time when over two men a minute are losing their lives in a conflict which is a million times more important than any athletic contest, it seems strange that so many people throughout this counry are now concerned over who wins the Harvard-Yale football game.

Particularly to new students it has always appeared curious that the Harvard-Yale game should mean more than any other on the annual schedule. And it has been a mark of such students to go into the Harvard-Yale clsssic with an attitude that says something like, "Well, we hope we win this game, but no more than any other." This year that attitude takes on even greater significance owing to the fact that Freshmen are, for the first time, playing on the Varsity squad.

Usually, the older students at Harvard have been able to impress on the newer ones exactly what the annual November clash means to the College and its alumni, and, usually, they have succeeded. This year, however, there appears to be a feeling which is quite understandable owing to the accelerated program and the imminenc of the Army, that who wins the Harvard-Yale game counts for very little. Moreover, the older students have been able to do relatively little to change this attitude.

Concerning the problem, there seems to be no answer to the student who cares nothing about football. In other words, if a student is uninterested in the sport or if he thinks it should be abandoned in wartime, there is nothing that can be said to convince him. He has his opinion; others have theirs, and both have their good and bad points.

It is with the student who does care about football, in general, and who does not think it should be abandoned that this article is concerned. It is to the person who will be either playing the gam in the Yale Bowl on Saturday or who will be watching his friends play, that one may say,

"Since we are able to play football this year, the Yale game means more than the rest of the season combined. It means the difference between a poor and a good season this year. That is hard to believe if you are a Freshman, but all over the nation Harvard and Yale graduates will be glued to the radio listening to the game and cheering for their college."

Assistant footabll coah Earl Brown is the finest example. Here was an All-America end at Notre Dame who had more than his share of football thrills, who thought he had seen the acme in football rivalry when he played against the Army. Yet, after his initial Harvard-Yale game, he was the first to admit that he had never seen anything like it and that he himself had never been so excited even though not a Harvard alumnus. Earl Brown is the best illustration, but there are others quite as good. In a word, the Yale game not only means quite a little to many people; it means everything."