Juniors win the Marah Halim Cup
　The Japanese Junior national team won the third Marah Halim Cup invitational tournament which was held in Medan, Indonesia, in late March.
　 Six foreign teams were invited by the Indonesian Football Association and six local teams participated in the tournament. Japanese Juniors won all of their six games in the preliminary play-offs and the semi-finals. They drew with the local Medan side in the final and won the penalty-kick competition to decide the winner of the cup.

　"The History of Japanese Soccer"
　The official publication of the Japanese Football Association titled "The History of Japanese Soccer" was completed recently. The publication of the book was proposed on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the Association in 3971 and it has taken 3 years to complete : 254 pages, cloth-covered, price3,800 Yen, in Japanese. Orders to the Japanese Football Association, c/o Kishi Memorial Hal), 1-1-1 Jin-nan, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo.

　Revival of University Football
　At the beginning of the new school term, the University teams have received many talented rookies from high-school football this year. Two promising youth players who had refused to join League clubs were among them. Akira Nishino, who is a fast, strong striker and regarded as a successor to Kamamoto, entered Waseda University in Tokyo. He had declined to join the national youth team which competed in the Asian Youth Championship in Bangkok as he had to prepare for the entrance examination of the University. Another well-known young player, Kazuyoshi Nakamura, a fast and skilful winger who has been selected as a national youth player for the last two years in succession, joined Hosei University in Tokyo, Consequently, the two young stars will now be the nucleus of a new attractive rivalry between their Universities in the Kanto (Eastern Japan) University League for the next four years.
　The real farm of Japanese football is in the high-school teams where boys between 15 and 17 years of age begin to play regular football. We have about 2,600 high-school teams and 55,000 youth players in Japan. League clubs and University teams scout the talented players in high-school football and canvass them to enter their respective companies or Universities after completing the high-school course.
　Until ten years ago, most of the top-class high-school players entered and played for the Universities in the Kanto and Kansai (Western Japan) areas. The University Leagues of the two areas comprised the best football in Japan from 1920s till 1950s.
　The foundation of the Japanese Soccer League in 1965 changed the situation. All of the Japanese League clubs are company teams. They offered positions in their companies to young high-school boys and persuaded them to play for their teams. After that many young boys prefered to take jobs in the companies which owned football teams, rather than continuing their studies.
　Now the situation has changed again. Most of the high-school players these days want to study and play football in a University first. We cannot say that the young boys have lost interest in League football. They still hope to play in League clubs but only after graduating from University. However it was unavoidable that the lack of young talent would affect the standard of League football and the attendance at League matches.

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