Dearth of Candidates Slows Spring Practice of Gridmen

"Nobody would believe it unless they saw it." Coach Dick Harlow meaned yesterday. "Only one tailback at a Harvard spring football practice who's ever had a uniform on before. Harlow isn't charging the "kids" with apathy, however. "Many of them are veterans who are kind of worried about their grades. They don't want to lose their G.I. Bill rights."

Coach Harlow is not particularly eager to hold scrimmages with the material he has on hand; he is afraid of injuries to the boys. In fact, in one corner of the field where a backfield was merely running through signals, someone incurred a nosebleed.

"Just look at that guy," said Harlow, pointing, "it doesn't even take a scrimmage for a guy to get hurt. All he has to do is run to the right when he's supposed to run to the left and he winds up with a bloody nose." Harlow went on to recall an incident that occured several years ago. "I sent one of the managers back to the field house to get some pads. He went dashing in and ran square into one of the pillars and dislocated his shoulder. Even the managers can be injured if you aren't careful."

Harlow disconsolately enumerated the long list of men from last year's squad who will not be around this fall but he has by no means given up hope of a pretty fair team. He expects some returnees, notably Cleo O'Donnell, Pete Garland, and Len Cummings, to give the eleven a shot in the arm.