Speculation at Yale.

The Yale Alumni Weekly, speaking of the recent changes in the captaincies of the Harvard eleven and crew says:

"The comparatively recent resignations of C. Brewer '96, the newly-elected captain of the Harvard football team for next year, and E. H. Fennessy '96, the captain of this spring's crew, have naturally created surprise and wonder among Yale alumni and undergraduates. It is hard to get a solution of the modus operandi, now popular at Harvard, although several prominent Yale athletes have been interviewed on the subject, among them Walter Camp '80, as well as different members of the football team and some of the candidates for the crew.

"It seems evident that the resignations were entirely brought about by the action of the graduate coaches and not by any demand on the part of the Harvard student body. Neither have they been asked for on account of any feeling that the men were not competent, any more than when Captain Waters, of the football team last year, when re-elected, resigned in favor of Emmons, or when later Captain Cook, of the baseball nine, resigned, and Wiggin was elected. The present resignation of Fennessy may have been suggested for his own good. It is well known that a captain, and especially the captain of a crew, is liable to improve more slowly than the rest of the men, as so much of his time is spent in coaching the others. This may have been felt in regard to Fennessy, and the theory seems more plausible when one considers that his re-election in May is practically assured.

"Brewer's resignation cannot, however, be thus explained. Arthur Brewer has been chosen permanent captain of the eleven, which will, of course, prevent C. Brewer being again chosen. It is thought possible by some that A. Brewer was the choice of the coaches, but that, being afraid he would resign in favor of C. Brewer, the latter was elected first, and then told of the graduate committee's plan."