FOOTBALL GAINING FAST--ENGINEERS BUSY AT TECH.

A glance over the football situation at the various colleges seems to show that the sport is making good progress, although it is naturally greatly handicapped by war conditions and requirements.

At Yale, there are two teams organized, representing the S. A. T. C. and the Naval Unit, which played a game in the bowl last Saturday, and will probably play several more; if there is going to be a university team at Yale this year it will probably be composed of the best players of these two teams. Professor R. N. Corwin, head of the Athletic Committee and captain of the Yale eleven in 1880, will be in charge of the football work this fall, co-operating with Major Samuel Weldon, commandant of the S. A. T. C. No coach has yet been appointed, but J. C. Mack, trainer of the track team for the past few years, and who has also trained football elevens, is still in the employ of Yale University, and will look after the conditioning of the men and perhaps do a little coaching.

One Veteran at Dartmouth.

The Dartmouth football squad contains only one veteran, and its time for practice is limited to one hour a day by war regulations, but nevertheless, it is making good headway and opened its season successfully by defeating Norwich University 22 to 0 a week ago last Saturday. Dartmouth has also scheduled games with Syracuse, at Spring-field, Mass., on November 2; Pennsylvania University, at Philadelphia, on November 9; Middlebury, at Hanover, on November 16; and Brown, on Braves Field or Fenway Park, Boston, on November 23. The game with Pennsylvania may possibly be shifted to Thanksgiving Day.

Columbia's Football Unsettled.

The football conditions at Columbia are very unsettled at present, because many of the leading players expect to be recommended for an O. T. C. in the near future; this will leave the team with a comparatively weak line. Coach Dawson found a great deal of trouble filling these vacant positions because of the scarcity of material and the lack of time in which to train the available men; nevertheless, the team successfully opened its season last Saturday by defeating the Camp Merritt team 7 to 0, and the management has already arranged for future games in which is included Amherst on November 2, and it has hopes of arranging a game with Cornell on November 30, but no definite arrangement has yet been made.

Penn. Requires Athletics.

The military authorities at the University of Pennsylvania have given official sanction to all minor sports, and have also required all members of the S. A. T. C. to spend at least one hour a day in some form of athletics. This requirement has caused the number of football candidates to increase immensely, and has given a fine start to all minor sports. Aside from football, soccer, cross-country and swimming will have the big call at Pennsylvania this year. Douglas Stewart, an old soccer coach at the University, will coach the soccer candidates. Lawson Robertson is coaching a large squad of cross-country men, for whom several races have already been scheduled. The Red and Blue football team is trying to arrange a game with one or more teams representing the "Big Three," but as yet no arrangements have been made.

At the Pennsylvania State College, also, the military authorities have issued an order that all members of the S. A. T. C. must participate in some form of out-door sport. As a result, a large majority of the men chose football, thereby giving that sport a great boost in the college. Baseball received second choice, and tennis, third choice, as shown by the number of men that came out for each one.

Amherst Doubtful.

The football squad at Amherst is working under a severe handicap, because many of its most promising players have already been taken by the government. This fact has forced the management to cancel all of the games scheduled to date, but it still hopes that a good representative team can be turned out. At present, enough men for three practice elevens have reported, and they are working hard under the instruction of Coach Gettell.

Field Meet at Tech.

The general athletic situation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in fine shape this year; three athletic units have been organized, repre- senting the army, navy, and the student body, in addition to the teams that the Naval Aviation Detachment has organized. The annual Technology Field Day will be held on November 16, when teams representing the army and navy will compete for the honors instead of the usual contest between the freshmen and the sophomores. The Field Day events will be the usual ones, namely: tug-of-war, relay races, other track events and football; the teams have already been chosen, and are hard at work.

New Program for Annapolis.

The midshipmen at Annapolis have been forced to entirely reconstruct their football program, owing to the fact that the other colleges were unable to make the trip to that city, for different reasons. However, several games have been scheduled with teams representing naval training stations near by.

Technical Colleges in Difficulty.

Of all the colleges that have had to change and speed up their plan of work, probably the technical colleges have had greatest difficulties placed before them; they have to cover all of their ground just as thoroughly as before, and therefore they can cut from their curriculum only the non-essential work, of which there is very little.

Tech. Eight Months Ahead.

At the Massachusetts Institute, of Technology, which may be taken as a fair example of a higher technical collegt, almost all of the men have been studying during the past two summers, with the result that the class of 1918 was graduated last January, and the class of 1919 received their degrees ten days ago, and almost all of its members are already in the service. Thus, Technology has been able to place well grounded engineers at the disposal of the country eight months ahead of the regular time.

Eight Terms of 12 Weeks.

In this condensing process, Technology has established a curriculum of eight terms of twelve weeks, compressed within two years. Within these terms the fundamentals have been changed very little, but some of the finishing touches have, of necessity, been omitted.

President Maclaunin, of Technology, has been serving as chairman of the War Educational Committee, under whose supervision this war-time speeding up is being carried out