Bill Coleman, who in three years has traveled the traditional Harlow cycle of center to running guard to blocking back, has no overwhelming desire to return to the comparative anonymity of a lineman's life.

"You've got more room to operate in the backfield," Coleman says. "And I like carrying the ball even if I'm not too hot at it."

During a football career that dates back to the days when he played with Bobby Green, last year's Crimson grid chief, on a 130 pound team at the McDonough School in Baltimore, the versatile Senior who will captain the hockey team this winter has occupied every grid post except end and water boy.

Tackle at Kent

In his Senior year at Kent in 1935 Coleman held down a tackle slot on one of Father Sill's greatest teams, and earned all-state ranking, which he describes as "pure bunk." Last year Coleman was a comparatively unknown center until the middle of October, when he was shifted to guard. A week and a half later, with Dave Glueck on the injured list, Coleman started his first Varsity game against Cornell.

It was in the Virginia game a few weeks later that Coleman was accused of clipping by a hot-headed Southerner who called him a "damn Yankee." When Coleman angrily retorted that he halled from Baltimore, the Virginian apologized.

"I'm sorry, chum," he said. "May I help you to your feet?"

Sold on Harlow

The rangy blocking back who is attempting to fill the shoes of Chief Boston and Cliff Wilson is sold on Harlow. "He not only knows everything there is to know about football, but he's great on psychology," Coleman says.

He is not worried by the fact that Harvard's grid schedule this year includes three snap games. "Two snaps ought to be enough in an average year," he says, "but what's the use of our going in for suicide schedules? If Harvard went in for hiring professionals, they wouldn't have to fool around with set-up opening games."

Professionalism in college football is probably a permanent feature on the American scene, Coleman feels, since many institutions have too heavy a financial stake in their football teams to get out from under.