SPORTSMANSHIP

With the beginning of the football season each year, come the usual high score victories of large colleges over unevenly matched small ones, followed by the inevitable cry of poor sportsmanship. Yet each year the small college, for financial reasons, wants to play the large one, and the latter is more than willing to get the needed practice before the important games. This is especially necessary for those colleges which, like Harvard, have a comparatively short training period.

As athletics are now organized the situation seems unavoidable. Yet it could be considerably improved by a wide-spread adoption of the "double-header" scheme used by Harvard for its opening games. Under this system, the whole squad of the large college can get the necessary practice, while the small colleges have a fairer chance of scoring, by not having to face a succession of fresh players put into the game in numerous substitutions. The general employment of this scheme would be an important step toward the goal of introducing a sporting element into what tends to be a commercial enterprise.