The two divergent theories of spring football practice outlined by Coach Can hell of Dartmouth and Coach Horween of Harvard are strikingly representative of the types of football played by the two teams. For years Dartmouth has planned her attack on the lines of the open game, which requires speed and skill in handling the ball. To perfect players in these requirements Coach Hawley, and now Can hell after him, employed exercises of all kinds, as remote is could be imagined from the old hard-driving, hauling football which was popular for so long. Tumbling and skipping rope would have seemed dainty to sportsmen a score of years ago, but for the Dartmouth football game they have their uses.

In contrast to all this, Horween plans to hold scrimmages, with three practice games scheduled to be played under regular rules with the usual officials. The straight line-cracking offensive which has marked Harvard teams for a decade demands superlative condition which can be gained only by hard work. The more seasoning a player can get, the stronger he will be for the autumn.

To those who may still think that football is becoming a business and not a sport, spring practice appears as a dangerous extension of the game. But its principle is the same as that of fall rowing, fall baseball, or fall track. Whether its work is light or heavy, it is at best only a conditioning process. But its chief justification is the chance it affords the dub to play with the University squad under University coaches. The numbers of men who report for spring practice, and who develop often into players of ability bear testimony to the value of the informal conduct of a sport apart from the hurry and hysteria of its regular season.