SATURDAY'S VICTORY.

It would be difficult to conceive of a Harvard sympathizer leaving the Stadium last Saturday unsatisfied. The University team was victorious and the football was brilliant and spectacular to an extent which is seldom witnessed on any field. Brown played excellently, but in the more brilliant playing of its opponent Harvard found its real team and the team found itself. No one can help being enthusiastic over such results. Throughout the game the team and its individual members took chances for long gains --not foolhardy chances, but chances that were more than likely to succeed; and success was incredibly constant. The offences for which we were penalized so heavily in the first half were effectively stopped in the second; our interference was powerful, and the entire team played as a unit.

After the game we felt nearly as confident as we heard that Brown felt before it. Saturday it was our turn to see the opponents' hopes dashed to the ground. Perhaps their weakness lay in the fact that their entire team was built up around one man, and when he was checked his team was dead. Perhaps our brilliancy was due to the very success that came our way. In the past it has been when we have had bad luck or temporary set backs that the bottom has dropped out of our team. Now particularly, is the time for us to realize that we may have bad luck and adversity in the future as well as we have had it in the past. It may not prove to be due to building the team too much around a central figure, although this we must guard against. If our team is to keep on playing football at the pace it set on Saturday it must have confidence but at all costs it must avoid such overconfidence as turns at the least reverse to no confidence at all.