Champion Adams Team Favored Over Berkley

As a preliminary to tomorrow's Varsity clash, the Crimson represented by the champion Adams House eleven, will take on the Blue in the shape of the top Eli College, Berkley, this afternoon at 2:15 o'clock on Soldiers Field.

At that time three other Yale Colleges will do battle with Harvard Houses on adjoining fields. Dunster will tackle Saybrook, while Leverett is meeting Trumbull, and Eliot is facing Jonathan Edwards.

In the featured struggle of the afternoon, Berkley, commonly called the "Mitres," will be up against a team which Adolph W. Samborski '26, director of Intra-Mural Athletics, calls the best balanced team he has seen here. The Gold Coasters put three men on the All-House team: guard Sam May, tackle Charlie Tobias, and back Bob Hurley.

They have multiple reserves--so much so, in fact, that Dick Harlow, Varsity mentor, on watching a complete Adams second team take the field, remarked that "there must be some proselyting going on here."

And so it looks, because the Gold Coasters have an array of stellar backs, who can pass well, run like fiends, and block hard behind a far-better-than-average House line. Outstanding in the heaving department is Kieran Culliton, whose passes to ends Dick Craig and George Kuhn, or to backfieldmate Bob Hurley are all too familiar to Crimson House players.

On the other side of the picture, the Mitres also have a devastating passing attack, centered around Dud Miller. Half back Donovan is on the receiving end, of many of Miller's heaves, and excells at ball-carrying as well. In one game, he scored 18 points on plays that carried from 40 to 20 yards apiece.

Berkley also has made great use of the time-honored sleeper play, which has netted them more than five touchdowns this season. The first time it clicked was in a driving rain, when Miller faded back, and hurled a 40 yard pass down the field to left half Neil Waterman, who had been playing dead on the sidelines. score.

Saybrook, who meets the Funsters, seems to have taken it on the chin this season, but in spite of this, has a good air attack, with which to tie up the Dunster defenders. Funster hopes will rest mainly on all-House back Don Cole, whose brilliant passing and running have sparked them all year.

Jonathan Edwards, who will face the Eliot Elephants, are apparently in the same boat as far as records go. However, Eliot showed much improvement towards the end of the season, and, led by their triple-threat, pile-driving, speedy star George Waters, have a good chance of turning back the Elis.

The Trumbull eleven, which meets Leverett, is somewhat of an unknown quantity. They were nosed out by Berkley as a result of one of the sleeper plays, but have a pair of hammering backs in Sutro and Novarr, who may be able to pound the Bunny line into submission. The Bunnies, however, have developed an aerial offensive, highlighted by the connection of a Hughes to Eutis heave from a spread formation for a score in their game with Winthrop, which may turn the tide.