Hustling Grid Practice Hits Pass Defense

Twelve grinding weeks of practice, and eight full-scale games had enough effect on the 40-odd footballers yesterday afternoon for Coach Dick Harlow to remark, as he trudged in off the flood-lit field beside the Stadium, that his boys "looked more like a football team this afternoon than they had all season."

Although cautious medicos earlier this week quashed Harlow's hopes for a pre-Yale scrimmage, and the first three teams consequently scrubbed and polished their wily maneuvers without benefit of bodily contact, there was a snap and precision present on Soldiers Field yesterday seen only rarely this year.

Double Time in Effect From the beginning of the afternoon (kickers and centers 2:30 o'clock; all others 3 o'clock) to the end (last man passed into the Dillon Feld House at 5:45 o'clock, players hustled, hustled, hustled and yelled inordinate encouragement to their teammates.

In the three and a quarter hour session, the Varsity exercised by drilling on pass defense, catching the forward throws of James Kenary and others, tightening defensive maneuvers against two of Henry Lamar's yearling teams using Yale plays, and punting.

Fiery Signal Drill

There followed a signal drill. It is axiomatic, almost, that each day's signal will be described in the public print as "spirited," and the adjective had lost a good deal of whatever meaning it started out with. But yesterday's session actually had a kind of fire, a handy attribute since the field gets frigid after 5 o'clock.

The "A" team, with Chip Gannon calling signals now that Kenary had moved into the quarterback slot, moved around very efficiently for 45 minutes before retiring indoors.

Jayvees Work into Night

On adjacent fields, Chief Boston worked on his Jayvees until after the light was gone, and Henry Lamar, through acting as Howie Odell for the afternoon, prepared for his own Friday game before retreating to the lighted confines of Briggs Cage.

The lineups:

A Team--le, W. Flynn; lt, Houston; lg, Drvaric; c, Glynn; rg, Feinberg; rt, Gorezynski; re, Mazzone; qb, Kenary; rhb, Moffie and L. Flynn; rhb, Gannon; fb, Lazzaro.

B Team--le, Florentino; lt, Markham; lg, Drennan; c, D. Stone; rg, Rodis; rt, Foster; re, Hill; qb, O'Donnell; lhb, Noonan; rhb, O'Connell; fb, Shafer.

C Team--le, Felt and Fitz; lt, Peirce; lg. Middendorf; c, Hickey; rg, R. Guidera; rt, Stone; re. J. Guidera; qb, Miklos; lhb, Warren; rhb, Roche; fb, Goodrich.