WEAKENED ELEVEN MEETS SPRINGFIELD

A crippled and somewhat maimed Harvard football team will take the field this afternoon against a band of gymnasts from Springfield in a game that promises to be more of a thriller than originally looked for. The Crimson ordinarily would be an overwhelming favorite to take the game but with nine men out of the contest and Springfield determined and set, Coach Horween and his men will have considerable trouble on their hands.

The Harvard team is at present in the most crippled state that it has been in since the beginning of the year. Eight men are out with injuries, and just yesterday Coach Horween announced that Trainer also would not start. Trainer will be on hand on the sidelines to go in if necessary, however. The octet of cripples includes Mays and White, first string backs; Crickard. Mays' understudy: Talbot and Kales, Team A linemen; and Trafford, Myerson, and Faxon, substitute linemen.

Trainer Out

The absence of Trainer from the starting lineup makes a place for Kuehn on the first eleven. Richards, originally scheduled for right tackle, will go over and take Trainer's place while Kuehn will fill in for Richards. Bancroft, a Sophomore, already has been groomed to take Talbot's place at the other guard and Upton will take care of the remaining tackle post. The ends will be handled by Harding and Ogden with Captain Ticknor completing the line at center.

It is unfortunate that White and Mays will be absent from the game today in that it will be the last preliminary test for Harvard before the Army game, which is really what the coaches have been pointing for all the while. Last Saturday there was a particular lack of coordination in the backfield especially on the passes and today would be the time to make the plays click. But with Mays out the laterals will not get a fair try because he is obviously the spark of the sidewise toss.

The visitors have an unusually heavy eleven for a small college team and as is always the case with a Y. M. C. A. team, are in the pink of condition. In its two games so far this year Spring-field has astounded its opponents with the rapidity with which it has gotten in-to action.