With a record of two seasons as a Varsity quarter-back J. Robert Haley '36 became captain of the 1935 football team as the result of the lettermen's vote at Notman's Studio yesterday afternoon. At the same time F. Stanton Deland, Jr. '36 of Jamaica Plain moved up to the managership of the team, succeeding Francis H. Burr '35.

Haley, who follows Herman Gundlach, Jr. '35 as the leader of the football men, has been an outstanding performer ever since he was given his first trial as the Varsity pilot late in the 1933 season. At that time he took over the quarter-back post from Danny Wells and at once came into the limelight as a good field general and an expert with quick kicks and deceptive running plays.

His showing along these lines won him a starting place in the Yale game a year ago, and since that time there has never been any doubt but that he ranked as the No. 1 quarter-back. Throughout the season just ended his steadiness on the defensive, marked by numerous tackles of runners who had slipped past the front lines, was one of the major reasons for the Varsity's continuing its existence under its succession of pressure games.

During this season he was forced to take over the heavy part of the job of booting 'em back out of danger. For with the graduation of Johnny Dean this end of the aerial service was left vacant and Haley was the only man in sight, at the beginning of the year, when the gifted Freddy Moseley was off the field.

Another department where Haley was used very frequently was on the spinner play that Harvard used again and again this year with quite a margin of success.

The new captain comes from Winthrop and prepared at Worcester Academy, where he competed in football, baseball, and track. He was quarter-back of the Freshman team in 1931.