'46 TRIES FOR MANAGER POST

Performing duties ranging from catching errant footballs to serving hot tea to exhausted coaches, twenty-five Freshmen have been competing, over the past two weeks, for the post of football manager.

Perhaps the most interesting part of a Freshman manager's duties is that of serving tea to coaches, following an all afternoon workout. This is without doubt the best job done of any tackled by the candidates.

Boundless Energy Needed

Excessive zeal is paramount to successful candidates. Clad in white ducks, sweatshirts, and sneakers, they must run to and from all assignments, never sit down, and always wear an interested look.

Assignments may carry the '46 aspirant as far as Stillman Infirmary accompanying an injured athlete or install him as a guard with instructions to let no one into the pre-game practices at Soldiers Field without an official pass. Both Torby McDonald and William J. Bingham, Director of Athletics, were refused admission by one careful candidate on the afternoon before the William and Mary game.

In return for all this activity, the tryouts get a chance to become Sophomore managers and an inside on Coach Harlow's machinations. The trick shift, used effectively in the Penn game, was old stuff to the managers.