LUSTY ANSWERS

The coming of fall ushers in the second year of one of the pronounced successes in the new athletic regime at Harvard--class football. When Director of Athletics Bingham announced that the football season of 1926 would see the reorganization of class football under a system of adequate equipment and efficient coaching, the plan was received quite justly as an experiment. As part of the much discussed athletics-for-all policy it had yet to undergo the most important verification of trial.

The results of that experiment have redounded to the unqualified credit of its inception. There is no gauge by which one may indicate how great was the pleasure of men who played class football because there is no yardstick to measure the joy of athletic contest.

Last year there was no more warming of cold October benches by a team D or E of the second varsity squad. The men who would have been assigned in other years this post of doubtful honor were scrimmaging under the eyes of the class coaches. They were gaining dally experience in the play itself and the benefits of that experience, however uncertain judged by the criterion of enjoyment, are quite ascertainable with an examination of the achievements of the men. Ten players were promoted during the season last year to the second varsity squad. This year the class squads of last season have three representatives on the varsity, one of whom had been only second string on his class team. There are on the second varsity seven players from the champion Junior Class team which defeated the winning Yale class team, besides several members of the 1926 Sophomore squad.

Two improvements have been introduced this year by the head coach of class football. Practice is preceded each day by a half hour of concentrated drill for those who have never before played football. Thus expert instruction is made available to those whose spirit is willing but whose flesh is untutored. Present plans call also for the formation of teams graded by weight from the players left unplaced after the tentative determination of the class teams. The important result of all these forces is the fact that the class team system of this year insures every sound student in Harvard College, regardless of his academic standing, of an opportunity to play as much football as he wants.