CENTRAL BOARD OF OFFICIALS.

The decision of Harvard and of a large majority of the universities and colleges of the East to submit the selection of football officials to a responsible central board, is a step which will have a very beneficial effect on the game. In football the officials have greater latitude than in any other important sport, and there is a correspondingly greater need that the men serving in this capacity should be the best obtainable. Increasing their number to three is a greater check on the players; but by supplementing this check with a carefully chosen body of officials, directly responsible to a central board, a strict and impartial enforcement of the rules is made much more certain.