, and now every
afternoon one may see sixteen elevens hard at work rushing and kicking
and otherwise developing new material. This system of requiring
everybody to join in the game is an excellent one. The boys at
Lawrenceville are arranged according to size, and are taught how to
play, and thus it is plain that in the course of a year or two the
Captain of the school team has plenty of good material to pick from. The
first and second teams have the additional advantage of being coached by
some of the instructors who were star football players in their college
days, and the benefit of whose experience goes largely toward making the
Lawrenceville eleven the successful one that it usually is.

Last year, for instance, Lawrenceville defeated the Hill School, 22-0,
the Yale Freshmen, 16-0, and Andover, 20-6, besides disposing of every
other school team they met. They tried to arrange a game with the
Princeton 'Varsity, but were not successful, for the reason, they
believe, that in 1893 they scored 4-8 on the orange and black champions.
Of course this is probably not the reason, for Princeton should be only
too glad to get such excellent practice even from a school team, and
this year no doubt there will be a match, and another probably with the
University of Pennsylvania.

A feature of the football record of this school, which it is pleasing to
be able to call attention to, is that in the twelve years the game has
been played there no dispute has ever arisen and no serious accident has
occurred. Moreover, as far as I am able to ascertain, no boy ever went
to the school because he could play football. All this tends to create a
genuine and healthy interest in the sport, and not only the scholars
themselves, but the graduates of the school take pride in such a record.
This is shown by the fact that the Alumni have presented a $300 cup for
class championship contests, each winning class getting its numeral
engraved upon the trophy; and an alumnus has also offered a cup to be
played for by the House teams, and to become the property of the House
winning the greatest number of times within ten years. The boys live in
Houses at Lawrenceville, as they do at Rugby and Harrow, and each House
has its eleven.

Of last year's first school team five men return: Emerson, full-back;
Dibble and Davis, half-backs; Cadwalader and Edwards, guards. This is a
first-rate nucleus, and Dibble, the new Captain, is expected to bring
forward a tea