Football.

The grandstands at Springfield have been examined by State Inspector Buckstone, City Engineer Slocomb, County Inspector Knight, Architect Perkins, and Bevard, an engineer from Norcross Bros. They are pronounced to be thoroughly capable of standing any strain that may be put upon them.

Hampden Park.H. H. White has secured an option of the use of Hampden Park, at Springfield, on any or every Saturday in November for the next five years. This is merely a move of policy and implies no assurance whatever that the Harvard-Yale games will be played there in the future.