Competition for Manager of Freshman Football Team Opens on Wednesday

Varsity Football Manager

Next Wednesday, September 30, in the living room of the Varsity Club, will start one of the hardest and certainly one of the most worth while extra-curricular activities for Freshmen--the competition for Freshman football manager.

This competition leads to much more than its name implies. The winner, of course, receives his numerals and has complete charge of the Harvard-Yale Freshman game this November 14 at New Haven. But besides him, four others are chosen who alone are eligible for the Sophomore competition. Three men are chosen from these to be Varsity, Junior Varsity and Freshman managers in their Senior year. Thus, in the direct run of football managing, only those who take part in their Freshman competition can gain one of the final offices.

Beyond this, it is interesting to note that the Varsity track manager for two years (John W. Bryant '36, and Charles W. Hubbard '37) started managing in the football competition. The same competition has also contributed an undergraduate member to the Athletic Committee every year, except one, since 1931.

This year the competition lasts only five and one-half weeks, the winner being chosen the night of the Virginia game, November 7, giving him and his assistants a week to prepare for the game in New Haven.

During the five weeks the competitors, under the supervision of four Sophomore second assistant managers, work with the Varsity and Junior Varsity teams as well as with the Freshmen. They have a wide field of acquaintanceship opened to them, both among the players and among the coaches, doctors, officials of the H.A.A., and of course the older managers. The work itself is for the most part in the open air on the practice fields and certainly is varied.

The competition is judged chiefly on the initiative and capabilities of the competitors, and since it is judged by the four Sophomores with the collaboration of the upper managers, it is certainly fair.