FIRST GRID CONTESTS TO START EARLY IN 1930

The early season football games next fall will be started a half hour earlier than was the case this year, it was announced yesterday by the H. A. A. following a vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard College.

The new ruling permits the games up to and on October 15 to be started not earlier than 2.30 o'clock and all after that date to be started not earlier than 2 o'clock. This year no games until November were permitted to begin as early as 2 o'clock with the result that both the Army and Dartmouth encounters were finished in almost total darkness, a situation which has been variously attacked as dangerous to the players and to the spectators descending from the stands, besides being unnecessarily inconvenient.

The regulation means that the Vermont and Springfield games on October 4 and 11 respectively will start at 2.30 o'clock rather than at 3 o'clock and that the Army and Dartmouth games will be started at 2 o'clock rather than at 2.30 o'clock. It is anticipated that this will prevent the games from finishing in the dark.