CLASS FOOTBALL.

We cannot remember a year when the class football series was brought to a close by playing off a tie game. It was not so many years ago that if one of the elevens found difficulty in forging ahead at the end of the allotted time, volunteers from the side lines would appear in sufficient numbers to warrant a score by one of the teams and it was usually the team that had the most friends among the spectators that secured the victory. This was perhaps a relic of the ancient by-gone days when in no less of an affair than a championship intercollegiate contest the sympathizers of one of the contending teams swarmed on the field at the psychological moment and wrenched the goal posts form the ground to prevent their opponents from scoring a goal in the old-fashioned game.

While the interest in class football this year has been fairly good in comparison with other years, it is by no means good enough. Where there have been men enough for two full teams for each class there should have been four and five teams. When we are providing healthy exercise and recreation for men on such a scale, we are beginning-to approach the ideal where all men will accept the chance to strengthen their bodies in good, wholesome games and develop a competitive spirit by measuring their ability with others. When we have twice the number of men playing class football as at present it will not only provide sport of the right sort for just so many more men, but it will increase the value of their exercise as the competition becomes keener. This, moreover, will have an ultimate effect on the University squads.