Eli Weekend Fuse Ignites Thursday With Dillon Rally

Dillon Field House will see the throngs and ring to the cheers of the largest rally of the gridiron season Thursday evening as the University prepares to see Dick Harlow's team off to Yale.

Unofficially opening the traditional Yale weekend festivities, the rally will wind up on the steps of Dillon after a sustained torchlight march through local streets. The parade will form before the eyes of John Harvard at 7:15 o'clock.

Coach Harlow, injured captain Vince Moravec, last year's captain Cleo O'Donnell, and acting captain Jim Feinberg are scheduled to address the crowd. Arrangement for an additional outside speaker are being made by cheer leader Gerald S. Spear '48, who is conducting the rally.

Band Route

Led by the band, the parade will swing out onto Massachusetts Avenue up to Bow Street. From there it will travel to Mount Auburn Street and down Mount Auburn to Boylston Street. Thence, picking up impetus as it moves, the parade will sweep down Boylston, over the Larz Anderson Bridge, and up to the steps of the Field House. Expected time of arrival there is 7:30 o'clock.

Shifting the scene of the rally for the Yale game from the steps of the Indoor Athletic Building to Dillon is expected to become a tradition for the University. The move follows a precedent set last year.

Spear saw in the enthusiasm shown at the Brown game a fair omen for the success of the coming rally Thursday.