Odds Waver as Crimson Meets Blue Today in 64th Renewal of Classic

Tradition will prevail once again today in the sixty-fourth running of the Harvard-Yale football classic in the Yale Bowl here in New Haven. The six weeks of preliminary competition that marked the Elis with a crushing superiority went by the boards last weekend with a pair of startling upsets, and the 1:30 o'clock kickoff today will find most of the 70,496 persons in the anticipated sellout crowd of the opinion that "it will be anybody's game."

Flickering odds have placed the Bulldogs anywhere from two touchdown favorites to even money competitors, as sports writers the country over have been throwing all reason to the winds in calling this spectacular clash. Local bookmakers give the home team an eight-point edge. Yale's injured backs ran smoothly yesterday afternoon as the Elis held their final practice of the year on the Bowl gridiron just before dusk. The squad looked balanced and high-spirited despite its shattering defeats of the past two weekends. Earlier in the afternoon on the same gridiron Harvard was cheerful and showed no signs of tension as the 38-man visiting team held its last warmup before the big game.

Mazzone at End

Dick Harlow will be standing by the same lineup he used to upset Brown last weekend, with the sole substitution of Stretch Mazzone at one end. The giueflugered pass receiver will be making his first Varsity start this year. Scrappy guard Jim Feinberg will act as captain in place of the permanently injured Vince Moravec. The latter will earn his letter in the traditional manner of Crimson and Blue competition by representing the team in the opening kickoff toes.

Of Yale coach Howie Odell's four backfield starters, only quarterback and deadly short passer Tax Furse is completely whole. Line-bucking terror Ferd Nadherny still limps from the Princeton game last week, while halfback Art Fitzgerald suffers from a head injury received against the Tigers. The man Harlow foars most despite his questionable showing this fall is fullback Levi Jackson, who needs only one good afternoon to make football history.

Fumble Last Year

Nobody knows which way the football is going to bounce, especially on an afternoon like today. Last year's game might have been different if Levi Jackson's one-handed grab of a wind-blown punt had failed, or if his now famous forward fumble had not hopped 11 yards into the grasping hands of Jack Roderick to keep Yale's scoring drive alive.

But the intensity of Crimson practice