OVER 200 MEN PRESENT AT 1921 MASS MEETING

The Freshman football mass meeting preparatory to the Princeton game on Saturday held last evening in the Standish Hall Common Room was well attended, about 200 men being present.

D. J. Wallace '16, University centre for two years and head coach of the 1921 team, was the first speaker. "Men of the Class of 1921," he began, "You are the first Freshmen to have a team that represents not only your class but the whole University. Your team is the one that will really represent the University this year. This means that there is a great responsibility upon each one of you. Every man should be out there tomorrow afternoon at ten minutes of two and do his share in the cheering.

"I have no intention of speaking of each individual player, but I do want to say that in Captain Faxon you have not only a remarkable player, but a fine man.

"When we go down to Princeton tomorrow, I don't suppose that many of you will be able to come with us, not when the Yale game comes, every Freshman must be in the cheering section. The Class will form as a body in the Yard and march to the field, accompanied by a band. It is at this time that your support will be most needed and most appreciated. You must be there."

H. H. Faxon '20, spoke next and emphasized the eleven's need of whole-hearted backing. "There is very little that I can say except to repeat what Coach Wallace has just said to you. Although football is only a game, it is well worth playing hard. The individual members of the team have been playing hard, but much of their work has been nullified by a lack of teamwork. It has been the outstanding fault in all the games so far. A common bond of sympathy is what is needed to make the eleven men play as a unit. I think the real beginning of a team spirit came after the Exeter game, when we began to realize that we had been playing only as individuals. If we feel that the whole Class is behind us as a team this common bend of sympathy will be more firmly cemented, and I think that I may safely prophesy a victory not only in the Princeton game tomorrow, but in the Yale game."

W. P. Belknap '20, manager of the Freshman team last year, then spoke on the responsibility of the Class of 1921 to keep athletics going. "Your class," he said, "is the only real class in the College. All the others are cut in half by the war. Your teams are the only real teams to represent the University. It is almost entirely up to you to see that athletics continue here during the war."