THE UNIVERSITY AND THE TEAM

With the customary pre-season murmurs emanating from New Haven, and Coach Roper at Princeton quoted as gloomily predicting a series of defeats for his team, the University may easily look at its largest football squad in history and be lulled to a false sense of security. But at Soldiers Field there is no underestimating of the season's work. Very little is being said and a great deal being accomplished.

A glance at the schedule ahead ought to be enough of an antidote to any over-confidence. Holy Cross, Centre, and Dartmouth, to mention only three of the looming "early season" adversaries, will play football that will demand every ounce of energy the University possesses to defeat.

To develop fully a Harvard team worthy of the name, is a two months' job; but to develop an undergraduate support worthy of that team ought not to take anything like the time. Lukewarm cheering, poor attendance, lack of interest in the games inevitably have an effect on the team. In the past when such difficulties have been encountered they have been due largely to a lack of organization among the student body.

Coach Fisher and Captain Buell are putting their best efforts into welding together a machine strong enough to get through a road that promises plenty of bumps. Every member of the squad is contributing his share. It is up to the University to organize to support them. Such support can be secured by the early appointment of song leaders for all the games, not for Princeton and Yale alone; by better organized cheering, and above all by spontaneous, sustained interest by Harvard men in the Harvard team.