Varsity Opens Crucial Week Of '47 Season

If Saturday football games are won the preceding Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, as more than one sage has observed, the first chapter of the sixty-fourth Yale game was written yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field.

For three hours the Varsity faced bitter cold, high winds, and Eli coach Howie Odell's brand of football as run by the Freshmen, as they went into their final week to make or break the 1947 season.

Freshmen on Offense

While Yardling passer James Russell Lowell impersonated the body of Tex Furse, and Henry Lamar stod by to call the plays, Dick Harlow's A and B squads worked out their defenses against the Blue attack.

The team also held a long passing drill with Jim Kenary and Leo Flynn throwing. Some changes over the Brown lineup included the substitution of Herb O'Connell for Chip Gannon, who is nursing a cold, while Jayvee Justin Walsh worked out backing up the line, and fullbacks Sam Adams and Paul Shafer filled in behind Paul Lazzaro.

Extensive Scouting

The Yale offenses were obtained by extensive scouting since the start of the season. Wayne Johnson, graduate student and backfield star of the 1942 eleven, has seen most of the Eli games, while Lamar, Harry Jacunski, and Chief Boston have watched the Bulldogs perform off and on this fall.

The bulk of Dick Harlow's information on the New Haven team, however, has been gathered by a scout relatively unknown to followers of the Crimson--Bobby Bell--a Bowdoin football captain before the war and a present native of Everett. Bell has been watching the men in blue since the season began.

Only Walt Coulson and Steve Howe remain on the doctors' lists today as the team faces the prospect of playing a football game in the best of health.