FIRST 1919 SQUAD FORMED

After a week of preliminary work consisting entirely of rudimentary drill and conditioning, the Freshman squad was yesterday divided into two squads, A and B. Thirty-three men, were retained on the first squad which was immediately given a set of signals in preparation for the more advanced work, scrimmaging, etc., which will be the order from now on.

As Coach Saltonstall and his assistants have had but a week in which to judge their men it is not to be expected that the selection of the first squad has been correct in all cases. Therefore, for a week and a half squad B will be run merely as a second Freshman squad, and no immediate attempt will be made to organize dormitory teams. Thus all men now delegated to the seconds will have ample opportunity to prove their worth and be taken up.

Dormitory Series to be Organized.

When the dormitory teams are eventually organized a series will be played in which each team plays five games. The winning team will gain possession of the Football Cup for their dormitory for a year. Besides this, individual cups will be awarded the victorious players. It is hoped to get neighboring school teams to come to Cambridge nearly every week to scrimmage team B a later the dormitory teams.

Although not much can be judged from a single week's drill in fundamentals, it is plain that the Freshman line will be a light one. V.N.H. Bates, C. A. Clark, E. S. Brewer, and M. Phinney have done good work in this department, but it has been found expedient to move several of the heavier backs.

For the backfield the coaches have an abundance of excellent material from which to draw. R. H. Bond, E. L. Casey, captain of the 1914 Exeter team, and H. Coolidge, of Groton are all promising candidates, while W. Platt, of St. Mark's, and H. C. Flower, Jr., of Middlesex, are fast and shifty, though somewhat light.

With the coming week of signal practice and scrimmages a representative team should soon be formed. Until them little can be forecasted of the tam's probably strength.