"THE TIE THAT BINDS" A NEW HAVEN COMMENT

It was not the good fortune of all Dartmouth men to see the editorial which appeared under the caption "The Tie That Binds" in the issue of the Yale Alumni Weekly immediately following our game with ale. We are happy to print it in this.column:

"Leonidas at Thermopylae, Horatius at the bridge, the Yale team on its own one-yard line last Saturday. Eleven men stood as one, under the shadow of their own goal posts, and four times repelled Dartmouth's smashing attack when a gain of inches would have meant vietoiy for the visitors. In the elegant diction of modern football reporting it may be truly said that the Varsity showed great strength. But in justice to the event, let us revert to the less choice expressions of a few decades ago, when sporting writers said what they meant, and declare outspokenly that the team has guts.

A tie game, per se, is unsatisfactory. Dartmouth came clown from off its hill by thousands, prepared to see a conquest. Yale made out a little better, for there was less confidence in New Haven than in Hanover. As a result of the game, there is a considerable rise in Yale spirits. Improvement in every branch of the game, with the possible exception of defense against the forward pass, was clearly evident. The breaks favored Yale—but Yale was ready to take advantage of them, as she has not always been in the past. This year's team may yet meet stronger opposition than that offered last Saturday, or it may not. But if it continues to develop as it has since the first game of the season, two weeks ago, and shows the fire and stamina it did on Saturday, alumni may look forward to the remainder of the schedule without too great trepidation.

Dartmouth, on the list again after an absence of twenty-four years, played a hard- fought, driving, heady game. But it also played according to all the tenets of good sportsman- ship, and the Varsity and the spectators alike hope that the arrangement will be permanent."