According to the press releases from Ithaca, home camp for the Cornell football circus, Coaches Dick Harlow and Carl Snavely will be "renewing a staunch friendship which has lasted since the early days of 1915" when the Big Red travels to Soldiers Field for Saturday's fracas.

The releases are out-dated. The friendship has already been renewed--by long distance telephone.

Following the lead of a coaches confab out in Texas, Harlow and Snavely got together over the wire the other evening and drew out an agreement--a gentleman's agreement. It had to do with the new substitution rule and each one agreed that he would not take advantage of the new "free-sub" decision to pull off one of the old sleeper plays.

It seems that when Syracuse met Cornell out at Ithaca last week, the Orange was getting a little blue late in the game as the six point deficit under which they were laboring loomed larger and larger. Suddenly the Syracuse coach began pouring a stream of subs onto the field and as the regulars came jogging off one of their number stopped just inside the white out-of-bounds marker and mingled with a bunch of subs who were waiting on the sidelines to get into the game after the next play.

As in the old gag, Cornell was caught with her pants napping, but as luck would have it, the sleeper pass to the man on the sidelines was bad and Syracuse failed to score.

In Saturday's game there will be none of this dastardly back stabbing: Harlow and Snavely are both "honorable men", they have been friends for almost thirty years, and they want to stay friends. As a result there will be no sleepers.

All the Varsity coaching staff and most of the Boston newspaper bigwigs were on hand at the Indoor Building yesterday as Coach Harlow presided over the first of a series of weekly press conferences following a showing of the Penn game movies.

The Quaker flicks, which were run off in slow motion, revealed a host of points about the game which couldn't be seen even with 20/20 eyes from up in the overheated, overcrowded press box at Philly.

In the first place the movies made it plainly evident that the Quaker flat pass early in the game, which that afternoon seemed to be all but glued in the waiting hands of Jack Morgan, Harvard's right end, before it bobbled out--actually was far out of his reach.

Morgan made a great stab at the ball and deflected it so that the Quaker end couldn't get to it, but the films plainly show that the national scholarship boy from Covina, California hadn't a Chinaman's chance of intercepting it. He had been seriously critized immediately after the game for missing the break that might have gotten the Crimson off to an early lead. If he had been able to get his hands on the pigskin it would have been a sure score as the remaining twenty-five yards or so to the goal was as bare as the midriff on one of next year's bathing suits.

Another highlight of the game which showed up in the movies but which was not so apparent in the game was the fine defensive work of two veterans, George Holden and Loren MacKinney, and a pair of unseasoned reserves, Don Forte and Dick Row. On one play MacKinney brushed off three big Penn blockers to make the tackle as the ball carrier came pounding around the end.

After the movies were over, Harlow explained why he has changed this year from the old single wingback to modified "T" formation.

"Without a smashing fullback we have found it impossible to make the single wing work successfully. We just don't have enough power. We're making an experiment with the "T" and we hope it will pay off in dividends," he concluded.