Harvard's new football coaching staff, composed of Head Coach Eddie Casey, only veteran of the quartet, Line Coach Adam Walsh, End Coach Wesley Fesler and Backfield Coach Myles Lane, will call out all candidates for the Varsity football squad on Saturday, September 15.
Faced by one of the toughest schedules in the Crimson's gridiron history, the Harvard coaches will get busy early with the list of aspirants in an attempt to whip a creditable eleven into shape for the first game.
All eyes of the football world will be on the fate of the Crimson team this fall since this new coaching staff, one of the youngest groups in the country has brok- on the tradition for the first time by being made up of outsiders with the exception of Head Coach Casey.
Fesler came to Harvard last year fresh from a brilliant career at Ohio State. Twice he was chosen an All-American end and he was a star of the basketball and baseball teams. Last fall he was used to coach the kickers but this season he will take complete charge of the end situation.
Myles Lane, former Dartmouth All-American half-back is one of the new additions to the coaching staff. Backed by a brilliant sports record, which includes membership on the Boston Bruin Cubs professional hockey team, Lane will take over the duties of backfield coach.
Walsh New Line Coach
Adam Walsh, Notre Dame's most famous center and erstwhile coach of the Yale line, is the final member of this youthful quartet. Harvard hasn't scored through the Yale line since before the depression and Adam has earned Yale's reputation for stubborn goal-line stands.
That is the Harvard coaching staff and they have a tremendous job ahead of them, because losses through graduation and scholastic difficulties have riddled the ranks of last year's squad. And the coaches have been gnashing their teeth and swearing that honor demands a war with Japan. The baseball team in their trip to the Orient has carried off several of Eddie Casey's most promising lights and won't deliver them in Cambridge until after college opens.
Gundiach Leads Team
Captain Herman Gundlach '35 at guard is expected to furnish power and solidity in the center of the Crimson line this fall and Coach Walsh will have to spend most of his time trying to figure out just who will fill the gaps in the tackle positions. All three of Harvard's first-string tackles went out by the graduation route and the coaches are waiting eagerly to see if Graham (Blimp) Springs formerly of the Class of 1935 will return to college. He was out of Harvard last year but Jayvee Coach Jimmy Knox thinks that he will come back. Blimp is said to be the greatest tackle prospect that over appeared on the Crimson horizon.
In the end department the leading candidate is Sham Kelly Jr. '36 a veteran of last year and captain of the Freshman team two years ago.
Backfield prospects are not too bright although there is a wealth of material coming up from the Freshman and Jayvee teams of last year.
While the Varsity is working out under the direction of Coach Casey and his staff, the Freshman eleven will be strutting its stuff for the benefit of Coach Cliff Gallagher, and his assistant Henry Lamar. Gallagher, Varsity wrestling coach in the winter, took over the reins of the Freshman eleven last year and brought an involved Notre Dame system to them for the first time. The intricacy of the plays held the youngsters back for a while but when the steam-roller started, the destruction was terrific. Dartmouth and Yale both bit the dust on the short side of a very long score. Lamar, the Varsity boxing coach will be coaching his first year of Freshman football.
