FOOTBALL FORCES HAVE INITIAL HARD WORKOUT

After three days of conditioning workouts, the University football forces engaged in charging drill yesterday afternoon for the first time this season. Tackling the dummy, strenuous blocking, and charging the machine were all on Coach Horween's first really hard program of work.

The same four teams which lined up for signal drill on Tuesday worked together yesterday, and though no particular significance was placed on the combinations which have been improvised so far, it is nevertheless noteworthy that a large majority of last year's veterans have been placed together on the team which has been under the direction of E. T. Putnam '29, experienced pilot of last season. In the backfield are S. L. Batchelder '31, valuable auxiliary back of last year, A. W. Huguley '31, letterman and stellar defenseman, and W. R. Harper '30, two-time letterman and reckoned the best plunging back of the present team. Just how this combination, experienced and tried as it is, is to be bettered without at least a game or so for a basis of judgement, is the problem which at present leads the experts to believe that Coach Horween has no immediate idea of changing his first team.

The line which has been working ahead of these ball-carrying veterans is even more of a nature to lead to the belief that there is something definitive about the selection of an early season first team. All the trusted linemen of last year who have returned for the present campaign are to be found in this forward wall. The ends are J. G. Douglas '30, R. H. O'Connell '30, both lettermen, the tackles Captain J. E. Barrett '30 and F. S. Davis '30, the former one of the outstanding tackles of last year and the latter a veteran of many games. The guards, J. N. Trainer '31, and W. D. Ticknor '30 were perhaps the most reliable standbys of last year's rugged team while B. H. Ticknor '31 at the pivotal position was not far behind.

This line-up omits all the members of last year's undefeated Freshman eleven, several of whom are generally considered to be ripe for regular intercollegiate service. When it is considered, however, that there are barely three weeks in which to put together a winning eleven, it can readily be seen that some time must of necessity be allowed the new men to assimilate the Horween system before they can be thrown into the front line of battle.