VIRGINIA TEAM HAS BEEN WORKING FOR PAST WEEK TO IMPROVE INTERFERENCE AND FORWARD PASSING

The Virginia football team has been devoting an unusual amount of time this week to trying out new forward, passes and to improving their interference. This is the weakest spot on the team. The backfield is made up of good men, but they show insufficient team-work. The defence as a unit has been better since the Yale game but still has much room for improvement. The present line with the exception of the wings, is regarded as the equal of last year's, and the backfield has been strengthened by the substitution of Kinsolving at left half for Smith, who is now out for the rest of the season.

Kinsolving's ability was first recognized in the Vanderbilt game. He proved the most consistent ground gainer on the eleven, and showed up especially well in shooting forward passes. All the regulars will be in the line-up against the University tomorrow except Smith and probably Wagenknight, who shared the honors with Kinsolving in the Vanderbilt game.

$50,000 Offered for Princeton School.

At a meeting of the board of trustees of Princeton University last week, a statement was submitted of the requirements necessary for the establishment of a school of architecture. The amount required to establish such a school would be about $250,000. Previous to the meeting an interest had been aroused in the proposed plans so that President Hibben was able to announce to the board the offer by a friend of the university of $50,000 toward the necessary amount, provided the remaining $200,000 could be secured before October 1, 1917.

Last year the Princeton Architects Association composed of Princeton graduates, chiefly architects, sent a memorial to the board of trustees recommending the establishment of a fully developed school of architecture, to be an enlargement of the present Department of Art and Archaeology, on the basis of the courses already given in mathematics and other technical subjects in the John C. Green School of Science.

To take such a course men would have to enter the college in the science department and in their freshman and sophomore years would have to take all the mathematics offered and in their junior and senior years would be required to take all the courses relative to architecture. After two years of graduate study in the proposed school, the degree of Master of Architecture or some equivalent degree would be awarded.

There has been a widespread interest manifested in the development of such a course in the past few years and 14 seniors have signified their intentions, of becoming architects. In event the proposed plan is carried out, the men who graduate in the class of 1917 will be the first ones to be able to study in the new school, although it would probably not be completed at the time of the beginning of their course.

Technology Field Day Today.

The freshmen and sophomores of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will hold their annual field day today. In former years the two classes used to hold a cane rush but this has since been modified into a competition in sports. The three events will be a foot-ball game, a relay race and a tug-of-war. The final standing of the classes is based on a point system, the events counting four, three and two points respectively in the order named.

Besides the field events there will be a crew race, which, however, will not have any effect on the winning of the land sports. Technology is being materially assisted in preparing for this race by the loan of several shells by the University.

The Amateur Coaching Theory.

Lawrence Perry, sporting editor of the New York Evening Post, in an article written for the Daily Princetonian recently, discussed the attitude taken by Yale regarding the retaining of high-salaried coaches. The Yale Athletic Committee advocates dispensing with professional instructors and developing all athletic teams "without such artificial stimulants or eliminating intercollegiate athletics altogether, until the dawn of an era of reasonableness in such things."

Mr. Perry believes, however, that so radical a change would at present be inadequate. "The suggestion that professional coaches be eliminated," he said, "evolves the old question of doing a thing well if it be done at all. It is a concept that underlies all the teaching of the curriculum, and one of the fundamentals of the scholastic code. If high proficiency on the athletic field is not a corollary of excellence in the class room it may at least be regarded as a related analogy. That Yale--or any other university-- could from her own resources, "graduate and undergraduate,' develop a purely amateur coaching system capable of developing teams qualified to compete with teams of other universities developed under the professional system is a practical impossibility.

"As a sequence to failure of the purely amateur system of coaching the Yale authorities suggest the abandonment of intercollegiate sport. Supposing this were done. Supposing also that Princeton and Harvard joined with Yale in their radical step? The effects would be rather far reaching. Primarily we would see immense amphitheaters representing an enormous investment--$500,000 in the case of the Yale Bowl--standing as valueless relics. We would see the abrupt cessation of the income, with the equally immediate collapse of various non-productive' sports to the support of which this annual increment has been devoted.

Constructive Campaign Proposed.

"It occurs to me that far better either than the elimination of paid coaches or the abandonment of intercollegiate sport would be a constructive campaign designed to retain the good that arises from association of our seats of learning upon the field of sport, and to exercise the bad. That evil exists it would be absurd to deny, but there is an overbalancing weight of desirable features. Were Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania to enlist themselves in a body designed to place a limit upon the salaries of coaches, the number of coaches engaged, team expenses--in short, to curtail and generally supervise the whole question of athletic economics, the effect would be immediate and farreaching."