FOOTBALL DISCUSSIONS.

As the days pass by after another defeat by Yale there seems to be little abatement in the discussion of the football situation. Criticism of what has been done in the past and suggestions for the future are without end. They give ample proof that football is not an interest which influences players alone, but one which fires the whole University. Some think that the importance of football is exaggerated, and they have strong arguments with which to back up their ideas. The great weight of opinion, however, seems to bear upon the fact that we are out to win, and that we should make the most of all fair methods of attain that end.

Permanency is the essential of a football system. All other considerations are mere details. But, in order to secure permanency there must be some change in methods. In order to put before the men who have the final decision in such matters the consensus of opinion, we solicit communications from all who have well-considered opinions on the subject, especially from the graduates and undergraduates who have played football and who have the most intimate knowledge of actual conditions. We shall endeavor to publish as many as possible of the views on this subject, in the hope that they may be useful to those in authority as well as to any one who is doubtful as to how to formulate an opinion on a subject which appeals to him through interest rather than through actual experience.