THE STRAW GAME PLAYED.

Upon the Freshman eleven devolves the duty of upholding Harvard football this year. While none of us now take our athletics as seriously as heretofore, yet in the back of our head there lodges that idea, that conviction, that the University must live up to its record of football. Next Saturday 1921 will meet the Princeton freshmen at Princeton, and the following Saturday Yale 1921 will be their opponents in the Stadium.

It is always hard to prophesy with any degree of accuracy about a Freshman team. In a week results may be produced which are a great surprise to the coaches themselves; the original Dark Horse must have been a Freshman. Yet from what we have seen of the Freshman elevens at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton so far this year, it will be safe to say the University first year men have no easy task ahead of them. Last Saturday these Freshmen only tied Exeter Academy, 7 to 7, the New Hampshire team holding the position of weather-cock this year. The Yale 1921 eleven defeated Exeter 20 to 0, while Princeton scored 12 to the schoolboys 6. Thus Exeter which gave our team a thoroughly hard contest was unable to score on either of our opponents of the next two weeks.

We are not pessimistic. Far from it. We have had expert judgment passed on our team, and that judgment approved of Coach Wallace's product. Our Freshmen are going to realize that during the coming fortnight more real work must be done than during all the weeks which have passed. Princeton and Yale will meet an organization not only stubborn in resistance, but one which is out for victory.