Yale Declares Platt, Scott Are Eligible for Varsity---46 Others Taken Off Pro

Information was received from New Haven last night that two prominent Eli football players, Bill Platt and Morri Scott, who, with Frank Gallagher, sub-Varsity center last fall, were announced on Friday as being ineligible, have just been taken off probation.

In response to queries by the "Yale News" the Dean's office released a list of 33 men, whom the Executive Committee of the Faculty have voted to remove as a result of makeup exams taken last week.

On Friday morning the Associated Press carried a story saying that three Yale players "whom Head Coach Ducky Pond had hoped would be available to bolster up the Blue line were "definitely on probation for the season."

This statement was apparently made on insufficient evidence. It was not until the full list of names was announced by the Dean that it was learned that Scott and Platt had both passed the examinations, and that only Gallagher would be lost to the squad.

The situation as explained by those at New Haven is as follows: compulsory makeup exams are taken by all those who failed to pass in one subject at finals. If more than one course is failed, the student has his connections severed.

The makeups are taken imediately college opens and those men who pass with a sufficiently high grade are then removed from the probationary list. Those who merely pass remain ineligible until January. Definite information could not be obtained on what was considered a sufficiently high grade since this is purely a matter of discretion and rests on the faculty's attitude toward each individual. Before the Associated Press story on Friday concerning Platt and Scott, 15 men had already been removed and last night another 33 were added to the list.

Scott was regular tackle on the "Iron Men" eleven of 1934 and Platt was captain of the 1935 Freshman team. Gallagher, who did not make a high enough grade this fall in the opinion of the faculty, was a substitute center last year.