Informal Football Practice Will commence Soon at Soldiers Field

Wartime football at Harvard starts again this wook after a paceful lull of 23 years when oologist Dick Harlow arrives back from his vacation tomorrow to size up Crimson grid material for next fall's season.

With a schedule fully as tough as last year's and one game longer, Harlow is faced with the problem of building up virtually an entirely new team, for no longer can he boast a line composed of players like Chub Peabody, Dick Pflster, and Loren MacKinney, to mention only a few of the "seven blocks of granite," or a backfield of Lee, Heiden and McNicol.

Informal Practice

The training which will start this week will be informal, formal practice not being scheduled to begin until September 1. As a result, Harlow's job is, primarily, to get a line on Freshman material and, secondly, to work the kinks out of former Varsity squad members who are present for the second half of the summer session.

These will probably include Captain Don Forte, a recent bridegroom, Russ Stannard, Ray Guild and Gordy Lyle. Little is known about the incoming Freshman class, but one good prospect is guard Langdon Clay, who established a reputation for himself during the past season as captain of Groton. Another possibility is teammate Eris West, Clay's backfield spark.

Floyd Stahl, however, seems to have found an adequate supply of Varsity material from the Class of '46 for his baseball team, and Harlow hopes to be as lucky. As most every fan knows, Freshmen are now eligible to play on Varsity team as a result of the wartime ruling adopted by the Intercollegiate Football Association.

What the status of College Football will be next year, no one can guess now. At any time, an Army order might come through, such as that which closed the Santa Anita race track on the West Coast for the duration, requesting that only a certain number of people be allowed to congregate in a stadium.

But, what with more money to spend and few places to spend it, chances are the usual array of spectators will again great the Crimson gridmen when they trot out on Soldiers Field to begin next season's football campaign