REDUCTIO...

Reports that moving pictures prove illegality in the Army touchdown against Yale on Saturday, must be laughed at. However true such post-mortems may be, they are distinctly averse to sporting instinct. If they are to be taken seriously there are but two possible preventatives for such occurrences. One would be for all games to be decided in a syndicated photographic dark-room during the week following each major sport event. The other would be to dispense with rules and referees.

The trouble with the former system might be that an extensive system of picture pirating might take the place of subsidizing of athletes. All sorts of unhappy conditions might ensue. The other system might lead to a Rousseauistic doctrine of football. Consider twenty-two brawny warriors with Hobbes as their coach and trainer. Perhaps the only thing to do is to laugh.