LACK OF PRACTICE PLAGUES CRIMSON

A football team can beat eleven football players. That was the lesson of the Camp Edwards game. But an organized team will beat one that doesn't practice regularly. That was the lesson of the Worcester game. The score was 13 to 0.

Last week, the same "A" backfield was different every day, as men started to catch up on their labs and reading period work, and the lack of drill was apparent in the backfield timing all during the game.

What made the situation worse was the fact that the two first-string guards were out of action after about ten minutes of play. Gibby King threw a terrific block on the first punt of the game, getting Paul Garrity off to a nice runback, but King had to go out three plays later with a back injury as a result of that block.

Mroz Also Hurt

Wally Mroz, who was hurt in the Camp Edwards fray, was in shape to start the game, but he aggravated that injury early in the first quarter, and had to be assisted from the field.

When King went out, Hammy Stremberg took his place. Stremberg is pound for pound one of the best players on the squad, but the poundage only adds up to 155, which put him at something of a disadvantage when playing opposite the 220-pound Mr. Matzelevich.

For the other guard, Coach Lamar had the choice of Jed Goldberg, who had just been shifted from blocking back and had never scrimmaged in the right guard post, and Vic Vicario, who had never before run with the Varsity.

Since the guards lead the interference, the loss of the two regulars handicapped the Crimson running attack on the flanks as well as through the middle, where almost no yardage was gained.

And, when Worcester had the ball, almost all the progress was made on Hugo Norige's bucks, which did the whole job on the second touchdown. In fact, an end run by Charlie Schmit was the only other appreciable gain from scrimmage made by the Engineers. This Schmit boy is the one who went 72 yards on a punt return for the first touch down on one of the prettiest displays of open-field running and blocking to be seen in the Stadium in recent years.

It almost looked like two Harvard teams out there during the game, since, in addition to wearing the home team's white jerseys (Worcester's maroon would have been confusing), Coach Paul Stagg had his men doing a lot of things generally associated with Crimson elevens.

On the offense, the visitors used a modified T differing from the Harlow-Lamar model only in that the wingback was close to the fullback, instead of off behind the end. And on the defence, the looping lines and shifting formations were reminiscent of Dick Harlow at his most ingenious.

The Crimson unwound after a while, and only an unfortunate fumble kept the score from being 13-6 after a 60-yard sustained drive which had Ray Eder, Paul Garrity, and Bill Henry taking turns in hitting the tackles and sweeping the ends for steady gains