1926

As I left Memorial Field in November at the end of a losing football game against Columbia, I found it hard to realize that the lads in green were not walking off with their usual victory. I was reminded of a theory of college football games expounded to me by a Harvard football center in the 1920s.

It was the theory of this former Crimson player ("Jake" Turner) that as a college's winning football record continues, an increasing number of football hopefuls will apply to that college. After a time, however, if the college continues to dominate its competition, the number of high schoollevel applicants who are football players will drop off, figuring they would have a slim chance of playing varsity college football.

Then, after the football standing of that particular college has dropped appreciably, freshmen applicants will return to applying to that particular college. This is because these entering athletes feel they will again have a sporting chance of becoming a varsity player.

That's the theory—what do you think?

Edward E. Emerson, RR 2 Box 457 A, Norwich, VT 05055-9510