m equal, if not superior, to that of last year. There are
few better half-backs in the schools than Dibble. He is a great
sprinter, having covered the 100 in 10 seconds at the school games last
June. Davis, the other half-back, and Emerson, the full-back, will
surely improve this fall over their last year's style, while no better
guards are necessary than Cadwalader and Edwards. They weigh 210 and 218
pounds respectively.

The candidates for end rush are Noble and Righter, and unless some new
phenomenons develop, they will hold the positions. The tackles will have
to be taken from the incoming classes, and the hardest position to fill
will be quarter-back. Captain Dibble may well watch the play of the man
in this position, if he expects the team to be engineered as well as De
Saulles did it last year. De Saulles is a wonderful quarter-back, and
will no doubt make the Yale 'Varsity in a year or so. A large number of
new Fourth Form boys, or Seniors, have been entered this fall, and it
will be strange if in a school of 350 enough available material cannot
be trained to bring the eleven up to its usual standard of excellence.

The teams of the New England League are also in the field, and in a few
days practice games between schools will begin. Boston Latin is
scheduled to meet Charlestown High to-morrow, and English High meets
Dorchester on the same day. There is unusual promise of good new
material everywhere, and the championship matches ought to furnish good
football. Only three members of the Cambridge Manual Training School's
champion eleven are back this fall, and the candidates for positions are
mostly small, light men. Captain Murphy, however, has signified his
intention of trying to make up for the probable lightness of his team by
perfecting it in team work.

The Boston Latin School was the first to get its men into training, and
has a start of nearly a week over its rivals. Many of last year's
players have returned to school, and most of them are heavy fellows.
Lowe, one of the guards, is the biggest man of the aggregation, and
weighs 210 pounds. Eaton at centre weighs 198 pounds, and his other
guard, Nagle, tips the scales at 185. These three have played together
for B.L.S. for the past three years, and are undoubtedly the strongest
centre in the League. The tackle positions are open, and one of them
will probably be filled by Rankin, who was a substitute last year. D.
Lockin, who showed some of the best end