Harlow Chooses Stahley, Crowther, Palm, His Former Aides, to Fill Crimson Coaching Staff

With Adam Walsh definitely leaving for Bowdoin and a corps of new men coming from all parts of the U.S.A. to join Head Coach Dick Harlow, Harvard's new football staff will be an almost complete break away from the old Casey regime. Only Wes Fesler and Jimmy Knox still have a chance of continuing residence in Cambridge this coming fall.

The rest of the 1934 coaches' squad has been swept out of Soldiers Field by Dick Harlow's drive to give the Crimson a new deal, and three of their places were filled yesterday by Harlow's deciding on J. Neil Stahley as Freshman mentor, Rae Crowther as Varsity line coach, and Mike Palm as tutor to the backfield men.

Walsh Leaves

This leaves the positions of Varsity end coach, Jayvee chief, and Varsity scouts still open, which according to Harlow will remain open until he has had a chance to look over Messrs. Fesler and Knox in the spring practice which starts two weeks hence. The third Caseyman who was in doubt as to his status, Adam Walsh, has definitely accepted an offer as head coach of Bowdoin and will be moving up there soon to put to use the same experience and ability which have won him such unanimous esteem down here at Cantabridgis.

Of the three new appointees two, Stahley and Palm, are products of Harlow's own alma mater and first coaching post, Pennsylvania State, and the third, Crowther, comes from Harlow's second coaching job, Colgate. All have been closely associated with him at Western Maryland within the last few years.

Stahley and Harlow

Stahley, who was on the All-East team back in '29, has a record of four years as Harlow's righthand man at Western Maryland. For the first two seasons he took charge of the Freshmen; thereafter of the Varsity linemen. Last fall he went to Delaware as head coach. Since he has played basketball almost as much as football and was coach of the Varsity hoopmen at Western Maryland, there is at least a possible chance that he might push Wes Fesler out of his dual job as gridiron and court mentor.

Stahley's two new colleagues, Crowther and Palm, haven't worked under their future chief quite as much, but both have scouted for him and assisted in spring practice at Westminster. Crowther has been instructor in physical education and line coach at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, since 1930, while Palm was Lou Little's backfield coach at Georgetown from 1924 to 1929.

Both have had varied and colorful careers, ranging from Crowther's winning a post on the 1924 Olympic boxing team to Palm's serving with the 45th Aero Squadron of the A.E.F. during the War. Crowther has recently been father to a new type of one-man line-bucking machine which he will doubtless want to try out here at Soldiers Field when practice begins on March 18.RAE CROWTHER