More has probably been said this fall about the quarterback situation at Harvard than about any other feature of the University's gridiron prospect. And everywhere the story has been told with the same pessimistic shrug, the same forecast of impending disaster. For Harvard, be it known, has no quarter backs this year, and without a quarter back how can a team be expected to produce results?

The more the experts mull the matter over the more gloomy they become. They can see no way out, unless--and this has been darkly and secretly whispered in almost every gridiron circle this fall--Coach Arnold Horween '20 is going to develop a quarterbackless team. The assumption is that the team would be probably directed by some veteran lineman, while an experienced half back fulfilled the purely physical duties of the quarterback.

Wetmore Counted Out

Just what developments the coming season is likely to bring forth in the case of the University quarter backs must, of course, remain a mystery, at least until after the team has played its first game. That there are no quarter backs of University experience available for this year's eleven is a fact too well known to need repetition. W. D. Wetmore '30, captain of last year's Freshman team, was counted on as the most likely candidate for the University berth this fall, but he is at present, although able to go through light work-outs, counted out for the season on account of injuries sustained last summer. Wetmore's disability leaves D. J. Kelley '28, H. W. Burns '28, W. B. Jones '28, and G. K. Brown '28 as possible choices for the signal caller's position.

Kelley Has Team A Call

At the present moment Kelley has the call over the others for the team A job, Kelley was substitute quarter on the 1928 Freshman team and has for two years piloted the University serabs. Burns who is rated after Kelley at this time alternated with Kelley as second choice in the signal caller's berth on the first year eleven three years ago and since then has played sporadically with the ineligibles. Burns, who is captain of next spring's University diamond outfit, and a board; sprinter of note has hitherto concentrated most of his efforts on baseball and track.

Both Kelley and Burns played football at Exeter, the former being somewhat obscured in the academy ranks after a brilliant career at Winchester High, while the latter never attained first string rating among his schoolboy teammates. The possibilities of either as a first string college pilot are very difficult to predict. Close followers of the sport for the last few years have been surprised this year to see Kelley holding down the team A assignment. The coaches have so far made no comment on the quarterback situation and the purport of the reports that have proceeded from the scrimmages has been that Kelley is playing a consistent game and that he is satisfactorily carrying out his difficult task. Until the first game or two of the season gives someone beside the coaches a chance to get an accurate line on the players, it must be assumed by those who have watched Kelley in former years that Kelley has improved.

Burns' Speed May Count

Burns' chief recommendation is his speed. One of the leading short distance sprinters in the University, he shows up to even greater advantage on the gridiron than on the track. In an open, speedy system of attack Burns might well prove a valuable factor. Whether or not his field judgement would qualify him to direct Crimson football fortunes through the important encounters of the season is a question which time alone can decide.

Jones, a fast but very light quarter back, who has hitherto been obscured in scrub ranks is as yet very much of a dark horse. It seems doubtful, however, that he will be able to supplant his heavier and more experienced rivals. Brown, an end of experience and known worth, was shifted to quarter last week. He has shown up well in his few appearances in that position so far, but has too recently changed over to give any certain indications of his future development--By TIME OUT.