New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Harvard at Sea
AS to Football
Plans for Fall
Few Remaining Varsity Men
Will Report for Practice
on Tuesday

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Sept 22-Whilc
there are not very bright prospects for
football playing at Harvard this faii'
the few remaining varsity men Will re-
port on Soldiers Field next Tuesday
a. also will the players Of the incoming
freshmen class.
No attempt will be made to organize
a varsity team to play any OF the
usually important games, but, if there
are enough men to make up an eleven
a few matches may be arranged in late
October and November
The freshmen season will be con-
Quoted as usual. late season games with
the Yale and Princeton freshmen being
planned. Whatever varsity football is
played will be along most informal
lines.
Regular Schedule Abandoned
The Crirhson's regular sche dule was
abandoned last spring, and it Is DOUBT
full whether any OF the regular OPP
ponents will be played this fall Little
experienced material will return, and
Harvard has decided to keep its fresh
men rule in force.
IL there is enough interest among
the older students and college eleven
cLn bs organized matchss with nearby
college teams will be arranged, and mar
ward also may play some OF the eleyens
that already are being developed AZ
neighboring training camps.
A contest between the Harvard and
Yale "informals' for the benefit OF the
Red Cross has been suggested, but
until Yale's plans are known nothing
can be done about arranging sueh
game.
The war has caused a general exodus
ret only Of Harvard's football players
but of the varsity and freshmen
coaches as we'll. Although the season
will start in few days here, it IS not
decided who will be in charge Of the
football work on Soldiers Field. Percy
Haughton will help all he can, but any
service he may render may not come
until November.
All the other coaches, 60 far as is
known, are in the service of the gov
eminent, but the older Harvard men
hope that Haughton and Brown can
find time to help little.
Recently the Harvard Athletic AS
ISOLATION announced that of the seven
ty-nine football players on the varsity
and second squads last fall all except
two or three, these being boys under
the draft age, were IN the military or
naval service Of the United States. Also
il was found that the 1920 freshman
players, with the exception OF one or
two men, were in some branch of the
service.
An Uncertain Sport
OF possibly one hundred and fifteen
varsity and freshman players possibly
six will be in college again this year, so
il readily can be understood that foot
ball this season will be mighty uncer-
tain snort for time at least.
The plan is to have those older men
who do return spend their time with
the incoming freshmen, whose season,
so far as possible, will be carried along
according 10 the usual system. If
enough upper classmen come out for
football, a team will be made up and
games arranged. But who will be the
coaches for such n team is as much
guess as who will be the players TO
comprise it,
So far it seems likely that Snow. one
of last years regular guards, will be
the only first string man from last sea-
sons lineup. Flynn, tackle, and Lik'
ems, an end. both substitutes. are ex-
pccted TO be in college again.