SAMBORSKI PLANS FRESHMAN INTRA-MURAL SPORT PROGRAM

With tennis and golf tournaments, touch and tackle football, and a track meet on his schedule, Adolph W. Samborski, director of Intramural Athletics, will launch a heavy program of Freshman interdormitory sports as soon as the Class of '44 gets settled in the Yard.

Entries for the tennis tournament, which heads off the Yardling program, are already being made at the Union and the Tennis and Squash Shop, Samborski said in an interview yesterday. The tournament, which will begin Monday, September 30, and will be played off during the week, will be held under the supervision of Freshman tennis coach, Dick Dorson. Dorson will probably select his Yardling team on the basis of the tournament showings.

Touch Football

The intramural touch football schedule will not begin until Monday, October 14, when Samborski hopes to have selected the necessary Yardlings to manage the teams. Each dormitory outfit, he explained, needs a manager to check up on attendance and to make certain that the men report for the games.

Managing the intramural teams rests upon a volunteer basis. Samborski said that the success of the program depends upon the type of managers he can find.

Appointed by Samborski, with the help of Eugene D. Keith '42, Student Council Manager of Freshman Affairs, and the hall proctors, the managers have an opportunity to meet many of their classmates and receive experience which will be useful in obtaining paying positions as house secretaries in later years.

According to present plans, there will be 12 touch football teams which will be divided into two leagues. The six teams in each league will play off a tournament, and the league victora will fight for the Yard championship around November 20 when the program ends.

The intramural tackle football program will be based upon the second Freshman football squad, composed of all those who do not make the first squad. For the first time this year, the second squad will play House teams in the regular inter-House league. Along with the Freshmen, 10 teams will compete in the intramural league including eight House teams and the dormitory or out-of-House men.

A new experiment this fall, the intramural football program calls for a socalled double elimination tournament in which any team that is defeated twice will drop out.

Also on its fall schedule, the second Freshman squad will have contests with Huntington School, Roxbury Latin, Thayer Academy, and Kimball Union.

Repeating last year's not too successful experiment, Samborski has scheduled an intramural track meet for the middle of October. The meet, which will include discus and javelin throwing, and 12-pound shot put besides the usual racing and jumping events, should give the track coaching staff an opportunity to look over available material.

Although it is heaviest in the fall, the intramural Freshman sport program extends throughout the year. In the winter Yardling dorms play each other in basketball, while in the spring softball is the major sport. Plans are now being considered to extend the program into other athletics.

Attendance will be taken at all inter-dormitory events, and Freshmen who participate will receive credit for satisfying their compulsory athletic requirement.

Attendance Taken

Samborski was enthusiastic about the results of last year's Freshman program, and he hopes that with efficient managers he can get even better support from the Class of '44. The intramural sports program was begun, he said, largely to give Freshmen a chance to meet each other on common grounds. It also is designed to give every Yardling an opportunity to engage informally in a sport he enjoys. Every student, according to the College coaching staff, should engage in some competitive sport.