SOCCER AS A WINTER SPORT.

Spring soccer is no more; the Intercollegiate Association Football League has arranged its schedule so that all the championship games will be played in the fall, the last game being scheduled for December nineteenth, if there are no ties.

This plan has many disadvantages. The soccer season will, of course, be eclipsed by football, and men who have participated in both sports will now be forced to confine themselves to one. Naturally, they will participate in the major sport, and soccer will lose men accordingly. The prolonging of the season almost to Christmas will mean in all probability a frozen if not snow-covered field, which will be inconvenient to both spectators and players. The abandonment of spring games will take away an excellent source of exercise for many men, while the long fall and winter season means weaker teams and inferior playing, because of the short time for training and the strain of many games.

The University representatives did not favor the change, but it was approved by a majority of colleges in the league and so it will be tried next fall. It has the disadvantages mentioned to overcome, and if it fails to overcome them, a speedy restoration of the old plan of a fall and spring season will be in order.