In spite of the ballyhoo about the careful in difference of Harvard undergraduates in spite of the growing demands of tutors, and what not, in spite of wind, weather and tide there are usually a couple of fellows coming back to college every year who want to know what the football team is doing, what it's done already and what sort of play they're going to have to endure this fall in the stadium.

Don't let your hopes run high, you faithful few, for the lads that are now sweating their souls out in back of the Stadium have not shaped up as yet into a very promising lot. And the spectre of tragedy has already invaded the precincts of Soldiers Field. If it wasn't enough for Coach Eddie Casey to lose all but six of his Varsity men of last year by graduation or other difficulties, the regular Harvard injury jinx had to open its customary season with a terrible sock in the eye.

What the coaches are hoping just at the present moment, and the little prayer that they're adding to "Now I lay me down to sleep" is for the quick recovery of Captain Gundlach who was injured in a scrimmage Thursday. For the last two years Gundlach has been a mainstay of the Crimson line and although his position does not allow much room for flashy play, nevertheless he has caught the public fancy more than is usual for a lineman.

Gundlach Certainly Out of Bates Game

The leg injury which he received in the tussle with the Jayvees is a recurrence of an old trouble for which he had an operation last spring. Just now he is slated for the sidelines for two weeks, and the coaches are frankly worried about his condition. He wont be ready for the Bates game and certainly will have to take it easy if he is to be used in the Brown contest.

Sophomores To Be Watched

It looks just now as if sophomores were going to be the dominating figures on the gridiron for the Crimson forces this fall. With only six returning first-stringers and many losses even from the Jayvees of last year, there are plenty of positions which are being hotly contested. George Blackwood, Leo Ecker, Donald Jackson and William Watt are just a few of the new names which will be found in the Crimson backfield this fall. Blackwood, a star of the yearling team last year and Watt have both proved themselves in scrimmage to be hard men to stop and Coach Myles Lane is expecting much from them.

Tackle Situation Considerably Brighter

In the line the situation at tackle has become much brighter with the return to college of Graham Spring, rated one of the best prospects seen at Soldiers Field for a good long while. Ed Simmons and Henry Adlis of the Freshman team a year ago are others who have helped to gladden the heart of Coach Adam Walsh. The loss of three Varsity tackles of last year as well as both first-string Jayvee tackles left the situation pretty hopeless but the showing of the newcomers relieved the minds of the coaches on this score.

Another problem confronts the mentors in the pivot position and at present Dan Comfort, Frank Casale and Bobby Jones, a Freshman last year are fighting it out for the first-string berth. With the loss from the guard squad of Gundlach and Paul Van Cleve, who was forced to return to his home in Montana, Casale moved over and took up his duties there but he is still nominally a candidate for center.

Very Tough Schedule Equals Yale's

One of the toughest schedules in years faces the team this season and if there were nothing else to worry about, the coaches might spend not a few fretful hours wondering if there will be 11 men to send into the Yale game. With Bates, Brown, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Army and Princeton in a row the schedule-makers have done a job second only to those at Yale. It will be a sorry sight this fall to watch the two bedraggled outfits, like tired gladiators battling it out in the Yale Bowl.