Varsity Eleven Closes Shop on Soldiers Field As Crimson Hits the Long Road to New Haven

Crimson flares lit the way last night as the sixty-seventh Varsity football team retired into Dillon Field House in the traditional manner of the final home practice before Yale. Coach Harlow wound up the ceremonies on Cambridge soil by viewing his A, B, and C squads in turn as they ripped off ten fast plays apiece before retreating to the showers.

These elevens plus the Jayvees and Freshmen paused in turn before leaving to give a rousing cheer to their comrades of the past 11 weeks. Then the managers picked up their footballs and put the padlock on Soldiers Field for 1947.

Today the College representatives in the sixty-fourth Yale game will test the turf in the Bowl at 2:15 o'clock. Terse printed instructions road in part: "Nine o'clock, train leaves South Station; 12:15, lunch (in New Haven); 12:35, taping; 2:15, practice in Yale Bowl; 4:45, Busses leave for Choate school at Wallingford; 7:30, squad meeting; 10:00, bed."

Harlow Pleased

Harlow called this week's practices the best he has seen this season. There is little doubt that he has been planning for this game all year, possibly for all of two years.

Yale has a team of great latent power temporarily mired under two straight upsets. The Elis have defeated Cornell, Columbia, and Dartmouth by impressive scores while losing to Wisconsin, Brown, and Princeton. They have an overall record of six victories and three defeats.

Bulldog Line Heavier

The starting Bulldog line will outweigh the visitors by about 199 pounds to 196, with each man standing six feet tall or more. The backfield is a dozen pounds heavier than the Crimson and generally recognized to be Yale's real source of strength.

Harlow is standing by the same nucleus he used to stun Brown last week, with the sole substitution of Stretch Mazzone on the A team. The lanky end will be making his first Varsity start.

The big game is scheduled for 1:30 o'clock Saturday. The squad will return spending the night at Choate School. Sustenance before combat will consist of a heavy breakfast at 10 o'clock.