SAVE IN HIS OWN COUNTRY

At least one university in the United States has been found willing to experiment with the two-team system of football, first suggested by President E. M. Hopkins of Dartmouth a year ago.

The plan, as outlined by President Hopkins, and apparently accepted, in theory at least, by Michigan, is to have two university teams of about equal strength, the one playing the home games the other the games scheduled for enemy territory.

President Hopkins own college refused to give his plan a try out and other Eastern colleges, though lending a polite ear, also declined to commit themselves. It has thus remained for the pioneer West to assume the burden of reform. Michigan, press reports state, will put the system into effect only gradually, and is evidently receiving little encouragement from the other Western colleges.

The way of the trail breaker is never easy. It is necessary to tread slowly, and aid is not to be expected perhaps until the trail is pretty well blazed. Michigan is to be congratulated for her courage in accepting the responsibility of leadership in what, on paper at least, looks like one of the soundest football reforms offered in years.