If two teams are at all evenly matched, and one plays a gentlemanly and the other an unfair game, the self-respecting team will always be beaten.

The game is so complicated, so confused, and covers so much ground, that no referee, however honest and determined, can see half of what is going on, especially since the judges, who were originally intended to help him in securing fair play, have developed into captains of their teams, and purposely distract his attention and increase his difficulties.

In the four games which we attended, there were but two cases where a player was punished for brutal or unfair play. In several cases the team was punished by having a "down" given to the other side, but only twice was a man disqualified.

After deliberate investigation, we have become convinced that the game of foot ball, as at present played by college teams, is brutal, demoralizing to players and spectators, and extremely dangerous, and we do not believe that at the present time and with the prevailing spirit, any revision of the rules made by the Intercollegiate Association would be effective in removing these objectionable features.

We therefore recommend that all games of foot ball be prohibited to students of the College, except those played by our own men, on our own grounds, and that these shall be allowed only in case it shall prove possible to eliminate all objectionable features from the game.

We believe that foot ball, played in the proper spirit, under proper conditions, may be made one of the most valuable of college sports, and we should deprecate its permanent loss.

We have conferred with students interested in the game at a meeting where there was great unanimity of opinion concerning its present objectionable character, and have grounds for hope that means may be devised to make it a credit, in place of a disgrace, to the University.

JOHN WILLIAMS WHITE, Committee on Athletics.W. E. BYERLY, Committee on Athletics.D. A. SARGENT, Committee on Athletics.Cambridge, Dec. 2, 1884.