Varsity Drills Against Tiger Plays

To all intents and purposes, the varsity football team yesterday held its final contact session prior to its 42nd meeting with Princeton Saturday in the Stadium. This afternoon, Art Valpey will ran the Crimson through its usual Thursday live punting exercise.

Yesterday's was one of the longer and rougher practice sessions of the fall. It was longer because no time was devoted to dummy drill for the reason that the absence of several key men on account of hour exams and sundry other scholastic commitments made such a workout impractical. Just why it seemed rougher, or more spirited, than usual is hard to say.

Before the regular mid-week scrimmage got under way, the jayvees ran Princeton plays for the benefit of the varsity defense and the varsity moved its own offense against the freshmen's defense in non-contact maneuvers. Things livened up considerably when everybody donned headgears.

For a little over an hour, the varsity scrimmaged under the hal-and-half arrangement. The first string offense was directed at the freshmen while a defense composed of some first stringers and some men who were filling in for players who go both ways tried to stop the Tiger offense as executed by the jayvees.

Harvard figures to be in better physical shape Saturday than at any other time since the season started, since there were no injuries sustained against Holy Cross and tackle Dick Guidera and tailback Jimmy Noonan are both expected to see action against Princeton. Noonan was one of the 13 men hurt in the Army game and was restricted to holding the ball on extra point attempts against the Crusaders. He did the passing in yesterday's workout, along with Charlie Roche and Carroll Lowenstein.