A STRONGER SCHEDULE.

Football is too big a subject at College to be given a rest. Now that the season has been successfully completed, plans must be made for next year. The first thing to settle is the schedule.

Much criticism has been directed at the present management for having offered so poor a list of games. But we wish to call the attention of those who are ignorant of the facts that the schedule was unintentionally weak. A game had been arranged with the Army at Cambridge; and it was only after all the other larger teams had arranged their schedules that the War Department refused to allow the West Pointers to play in the Stadium. An Army game in the early season would have bolstered one weak spot immensely.

The fact remains, however, that Harvard must have a stronger schedule in 1920. Although it is true that injuries are more liable to occur in big games, nevertheless the moral preparation for the Yale game, both for the team and the undergraduates, far outweighs the physical objection. Not until this year's team had been given a taste of real football for one-half of the Princeton game did they find themselves. From then on nothing could stop them. Not until the undergraduates saw their team fighting to the last ditch at Princeton did they know what backing was. After that none could be more loyal.

Athletics are now pretty well back on a pre-war basis. Harvard should have, along with the chance of beating Yale and Princeton, an opportunity for the championship. A game with any one of such teams as Cornell, Pennsylvania, or Colgate would accomplish this result. It is only fair to the College that the football management should do this.