Finally out of the shadow of defeat, Chief Boston's Freshman football team is going to find that staying in the sun is no cinch. For in the last two games of 1944's short, five game schedule, the Freshmen will meet two other yearling elevens. Yale and Dartmouth, both bent on concluding their seasons in the successful glow of victory.

But apparently the dormant Yardling aggregation awoke from its previous stupor in Saturday's 20 to 0 set-to with Andover, when they realized practically all of Boston's dreams by pulverizing the school-boys offensively, while holding them well in check on the defense.

Tackle Berth Bright Spot

One department especially of this year's Freshman squad should please Dick Harlow, whose tackle problem has been severe since the graduation of Tom Healey. Boston has a wealth of tackles, almost more than he needs. Four of them, Captain Steve Mallett, George Hibbard, Rollo Fisher, and Fred Parson, have been waging a bitter battle for starting posts all year, and all of them are over six two and close to 200 pounds.

In the guard positions, too, line coach Joe Nee finds himself fortunate. Hugh Lawrence, who quit early in the year, but was persuaded to don cleats again, has cinched one berth, and Doug DeCoster has the present option on the other one, although Pets Dorsey, and George Blanchard, whose shoulder injury is still keeping him out of action, can't be counted out of the scrap.

Other Reserves Weaker

Except for these two groups, Boston has been forced to rely more on his starting players, and only in the Andover game, where the Freshmen were safely ahead, did he give his reserve operatives much of a workout.

Leonard Cummings has been a steady starter at one end, but the other flank is still a question mark. Tom Bridge, John Teal, and Al Reeves have all seen service, but Teal, a rangy wingman, had the situation in hand last week. At center Autle Mason, while not measuring up to some of his bigger team-mates, has kept his position securely in hand with his accurate snap-backs.

Wayne Johnson, who calls the plays in the huddle, and Cleo O'Donnel are the 1944 running threats. Saturday Johnson tallied once on a seventy-yard jaunt, tossed a scoring pass to Pete Truesdale, and kicked two points for his afternoon's contribution. O'Donnell, a very speedy halfback, took Steve Gifford's place in the backfield, when Steve was laid out for the season with a back injury. Howie Gleason has been a consistent starter, and at present there is a ding-dong battle waging between Swede Anderson and Tom Cowen for the bucking spot in Boston's backfield.