The Season Opens

It will be one more week before the Stadium will again harbor its football crowds and before the Lars Anderson Bridge will again be alive with the throngs going to and fro, but despite this the season for Harvard football followers really opens today. Every one of the eight opponents that the Crimson will meet this year gets into action today while one of them has even played one game already. The scouts and the dopesters will be busy today as they get their first chance for definite opinions and the first basis for comparative scores.

Harvard's first two opponents will not bear as much watching as their other six will today but both of them will try out their plays out teams that should not be setups for them. Vermont, the first Stadium visitor, tackles one of the Little Three, Amherst, away from home, while the Springfield gymnasts, who follow the Green Mountain Staters on the Crimson schedule, journey down to the bowels of Pennsylvania to play the coal miners of East Stroudsberg. Army, the team that is the object of every move on the Harvard field those days, has arranged for Boston University to provide the opening opposition and give its new coach, Major Sasse, an opportunity to try out his Warner system. The Big Green has carded Norwich, the same rival that received such a drubbing at the hands of the Indians in the opening tilt of the season last year. Dartmouth and Norwich will complete 25 years of rivalry today.

William and Mary, Harvard's first November opponent, has already played one game with the Langley Air Field aggregation and won it 19 to 7 and swings into action against another setup, Guilford today. But better opportunity for ascertaining the strength of the Southerners will be afforded next Saturday when the Navy takes them on on its home field. Michigan, the team that probably will attract the most attention in these parts this fall and also furnish some of the toughest opposition, has followed the Big Ten custom of carding a double-header on the early Saturdays and will split up its squad and play games with both Ypsilanti and Dennison. The Ypsilanti game will be in the Yost Stadium and all the high schools in the state will be the guest of the university.

Holy Cross is the second team among the Harvard opponents that has a new coach this year and John McEwan, the new Crusader mentor, will make his debut to the Holy Cross fans today when he trots out his team against St. Bona-venture. Yale's students just registered on Thursday but they will see a football game today already for the Eli authorities departed from their usual custom and made up a nine game schedule for the Blue, getting Maine as the first opponent.

Just what most of these eight teams do in their games today will not make much difference, since the opposition is admittedly weak but it will be possible at least to get some line on their style of play and on their potentialities. Of more interest, however, will be the Harvard-Vermont game next Saturday when all may see what the Harvard team that is going to play all this opposition actually looks like.

Brief Notes

Rudy Vallee, it is reported, will take time off from his crooning to watch those two fortunate institutions, Maine and Yale, which have claim on him as a son, mix it up today in the Yale Bowl. "Time Out" is sure both teams will strive the harder, knowing that their pal Rudy is up there, somewhere, in the stands, singing, softly to himself the Maine' Stein Song to the tune of Boola, Boola, or vice versa .... Yale, incidentally, seems to have solved the problem that has bothered some of its teams in years which have not yet faded far into memory. Reports, perhaps not wholly true, have explained the ineffectiveness of the Elis in their objective games on account of Sheff vs. "Ac." squabbles in the backfield. Coach Stevens this year has his "A" backfield, of Booth, Muhlfeld, Beane, and Dunn, made up solely of scientific school men, while the "B" backfield is made up entirely of students from the academic college--Parker, Taylor, McLennan, and Snead .... Once again, Michigan has scheduled no game for the Saturday preceding the encounter with Harvard in the Stadium .... "Time Out" is glad to see that Dr. Huey, who has had a really phenomenal record in his score predictions, is back on the job, starting today. --BY TIME OUT.