KENTUCKY COLONELS MEET CRUCIAL TEST OF CAREER BEFORE STADIUM THOUSANDS

The officials: R. W. Maxwell, Swarthmore, referee; T. G. Thorp, Columbia, umpire; G. N. Bankart, Dartmouth, field judge; W. G. Crowell, Swarthmore, head, linesman. Time of game, 3 P. M.

Centre College, led by Captain Alvin "Bo" McMillin, the fighting quarterback, faces the crucial test of its brilliant career when it bucks up against the University eleven this afternoon. Thirty-nine thousand people are coming from far and wide to witness this great inter-sectional struggle in which the odds are in favor of the Crimson. With Captain Horween, Owen, Churchill, and Fitzgerald lined up in the backfield, the husky Kentuckian players will have to exert themselves to the utmost for football experts believe that this Crimson combination will prove to be the most formidable quartette, both on the offense and defense, that has played on an Eastern football field this fall.

Trying Ordeal for Colonels.

The Colonels are facing a trying ordeal. Never before have they played in a huge stadium lined with cheering thousands that have come to watch them prove their right to the fame they now enjoy; never before have they faced an eleven which possesses such a reputation for fighting qualities and winning ability. Whether the Centre team, realizing how much, for it, depends on victory, gets hurried and careless in the first minutes of play and thereby ruins its own chance is a question that is being asked by critics.

Practice for Both Teams Yesterday.

Both elevens are in excellent condition. As soon as the Southern special pulled into the South Station at 2.25 yesterday afternoon, the Colonels jumped into automobiles and were rushed to Soldiers Field for an hour's practice behind closed gates in the Stadium. The University men, in the meanwhile, were locked up in the baseball cage having their last dummy practice.

When the Centre squad dashed back to the Lecker Building. Head Coach Fisher sent his men into the Stadium for a long signal drill which completed their preparation.

Coach Moran Not Over Confident.

Yesterday Coach Moran of Centre said that both he and his men realized that the Centre College team was up against a very difficult proposition; and that they would have to fight the battle of their lives to make a favorable showing against the heavy Harvard team. "You have a wonderful coaching system here at Harvard," he went on, "a system which with its thoroughness and individual attention has turned out a team which we can hardly expect to defeat. Not that I mean we won't do all we can to win, but we are certainly not over-confident. After the game, I believe that both teams will feel that they have come up against real opposition, and that Harvard will feel justified for having included us on her schedule. We expect to play a hard, clean, game of football, and if the Crimson wins we will be glad to concede that they are a better team."