BROWN HERE TO WIN.

It requires little acquaintance with the "inside" in football to comprehend that this afternoon's game will prove a crucial one for the University eleven. Two teams, likely to figure in championship records, come to their annual game with clean scores. They meet in a 60-minute gridiron battle. It is safe to say that one will drop from the list of highest football honors.

Brown comes to Cambridge with brass bands and cheering sections, flushed with the recent victory at Philadelphia; confident that this season's one ambition, namely, to defeat Harvard, will be fulfilled as surely as was last year's determination to overwhelm Yale. All Providence comes to Cambridge to behold the probable victory, knowing full well the exact power of the eleven tried and chosen men.

Opposed are eleven other men, differing in that they lack that confidence to be derived from gruelling games with teams of equal weight and skill. In many ways Harvard may be Brown's equal, but we must admit that so far we have met no eleven sufficiently powerful to cope with either our attack or defence. Here surely is a weakness.

But for the ailment there is a remedy. Trite it is to say that concerted cheering and like expressions of moral support more than counteract the lack of confidence such as the team may feel this afternoon. Nevertheless, it seems to us that another splendid demonstration of enthusiasm similar to that which characterized last year's mass meetings in the Union is due in the stands today. Let all those who appreciate what defeat or victory against Brown implies, what meeting Yale and Princeton with a clean record implies, and above all what irresponsible and compelling enthusiasm implies, let these men, we say, go to the game this afternoon and cheer on a winning team.