POURING IT ON

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

As one who has sat through the past few unhappy years of Harvard football and thought it unsportsmanlike of certain Harvard opponents to run up big scores against outclassed Harvard football teams, I must say that my views on this practice have not changed because it was Harvard's turn on Saturday to run up the score.

I am not an expert on football, and perhaps there will be explanations forthcoming, but I do not understand why Captain Nichols had to be rushed into the game on defense when Washington was threatening to reduce by one Harvard's several touchdown lead late in the game, why Nichols had to be in on the kick-off with Harvard leading 35 to 0, why Clasby, O'Neill, and Ederer were all in the backfield with the score 28 to 0.

Here was an excellent chance to give some game experience to players from whom will have to be picked the first elevens of next year and the year after. Why should this chance be wasted in a headline-hunting and unsportsmanlike effort to run up the score? Sedgwick W. Green '50, 31.