When the University football scrubs entered the Stadium yesterday afternoon, the score or so of bystanders, who had been watching Coach Knox put his large squad through signal drill, had every reason to believe that the blackshirts were about to receive another trimming at the hands of the first three line-ups. But yesterday's story was not the same as that of each of the scrimmages held last week. Although beaten by one touchdown, it was only by the barest possible margin that they missed tying the score.

Team A Line Starts Unchanged

The Team A line was the same as that which started all last week. Gehrke, Hammond, and Miller were still missing from the backfield. They were replaced by Maher, Samborski, and Howe, while Spalding directed the team during the early part of the 35-minute scrimmage.

Heagney Recovers Own Fumble

Team A was given the pigskin on the center line. It immediately found itself facing much sterner opposition than at any previous time this season, for after driving the scrubs back to their 43-yard line, it lost the ball on downs. Then Heagney, one of the blackshirt's best backs, dropped back to receive a long pass from center. He muffed it, and half a dozen Crimson players closed in. But from out of the mass a figure dashed, dodged one or two tacklers, and then tore down the field, leaving behind a group of dazed players. When he was finally stopped 22 yards further, on the University's 35-yard line, the handful of substitutes on the sidelines discovered that it was Heagney who had recovered his own fumble.

Fumbled Pass Stops Score

One rush and two offside penalties brought the ball to Team A's 23-yard line. The scrubs were fighting and could not be stopped. Four line plunges netted them eleven yards and a first down, but 12 yards from the goal. The next play came as close to giving the scrubs a touchdown as it could without doing so. A well-directed forward pass flew right to a blackshirt over the zero line. He reached for it, seemed to catch it, then let it go, and the scrubs lost their opportunity for revenge. Cheek, who was now directing Team A, intercepted a pass on the next play on the eight-yard line.

Team A Scores at Last

Coach Fisher subsequently gave the ball to Captain Greenough's team on the scrubs' 30-yard line. The first team, almost completely changed by substitutions, showed to last week's form as it drove Coach Knox's men to their goalposts, and carried the ball across on a play by Maher.

Interest in yesterday afternoon's practice lay not wholly in the Stadium. In the Freshman field Coach Campbell made the first division of his unwieldy squad. The squad of 66 which he retained, however, is still far larger than he wishes. Following the first scrimmages which he will hold in the middle of the week, he will probably again reduce the number by a third. Of those he retained yesterday, 19 are ends, 12 are backs, seven are quarterbacks, and 28 are linemen