LINING THEM UP

After ten days of careful searching, Henry R. "Bob" Margarita has just pulled a few needles out of a small haystack, but the freshman football coach isn't talking about the quality of his products yet.

Margarita refuses to talk about the 1952 version of the freshman football team until after tomorrow's opening game at Andover. You can't blame Margarita either, he's only seen them practice for ten days, with actual scrimmage on five.

Margarita has, however, picked 44 men for his "A" squad out of the original horde of 145 that turned out. After finishing this little job, the former Brown and Chicago Bear star can just sit back, relax, and coach.

Margarita plays innocent to any questions about the team with an "I just don't know" answer to any question. He admits to knowing the first names of "three guys out there," and says flatly that without the name tapes that all players wear, "I'd be completely lost."

But despite this talk, he does have some idea of his manpower, as evidenced by the squad list he wrote out yesterday. And despite his caginess, he has the making of a pretty good team.

Starting at tailback against Andover will be 158-pound Dick Oehmler. Oehmler, one of the 20 former high school captains on the squad, looks like the kind of runner that "weights 155 but hits like a 200-pounder."

Teaming with him in the backfield will be Bill Volmer, 195 pound fullback from Salem. Jost-Michelsen, also 195 pounds a blocking back from Winchester, and little Dick Jim Donaghy, 150 pound wingback from Pennsylvania. Besides reams of publicity clippings, the three seem to have a lot of ability, with speed and power.

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Margarita will field a line that averages 190 pounds, but which has had a lot of trouble in practice, and might have even more against Andover's fast well-coached operatives.

Dave Bodiker, a six foot, 186 pound all-Everything from Dayton, Ohio, anchors the line, at center. Just about everybody except Margarita has been talking about Bodiker.

Tom Jones, an all-country selection from Pennsylvania, and Bill Meigs, will team at guard. Both weigh about 190.

John Maher, six-foot-three, 210 pound glant from Sanford, Maine, and Orville Tice, an inch shorter and ten pounds Highter, former captain of New Haven's Hillhouse High, will start at outside and inside tackle respectively in Margarita's single wing.

Joe Pettiford, a six footer from McKoosport, Penn, and 218 pound Pete give the coach's pair of big and potentially smart ends.