First of Five New House Football Fields Is Now Near Completion

The first of five new House football fields is now nearing completion on the northeast corner of Soldiers Field. By 1954, the Athletic Association said yesterday, four more House fields will be resurfaced and ready.

The new field is being laid out on land developed for the first time, and the job will be finished within ten days. The four other fields will really be old fields resurfaced, and work on them will probably start after the first frost.

"Better fields should reduce the number of sprained ankles and leg injuries House footballers have suffered in recent years," construction chief Stuart B. Avery, Jr., said yesterday.

The four House fields now in use were built in 1924 on fill material that has since settled unevenly. The H.A.A. will now lay a cinder foundation under the whole area, Avery said, and, if the fields should sink in the future, "at least they'll sink more evenly."

Only two of the four fields presently in use are for House football, the other two being used for touch football.

Also proposed for Soldiers Field at some future date are new storage sheds that would replace present structures to the north of the tennis courts. The new buildings would blend more evenly into the scene than do the present buildings, it is hoped.