Yale's color may be blue, but to Crimson scouts Floyd Stahl and Lyal Clark, green is the keynote of this year's team.

In other words, the present Eli gridders would be much better than they are if they only had a little more experience all around. Sophomores are right in the running for most of the positions on the first team with the probability that eight of them may start this Saturday's game against the Crimson.

This year's Yale team, although it has lost six consecutive games since its opening win over Virginia, mount not be underrated, however. According to Clark and Stahl, the Elis might have won the game last week against the Tigers if it were not for the fact that they were on the tough end of every break in the game.

The Blue line is big (excluding Miller, it outweighs the Harvard front defense) and is supposedly equal to the Princeton line that it faced last Saturday.

Outstanding in the end department in 183-pound Bartholemy, who excels as a pass receiver.

Green at Other End

At the other end is another dangerous pass snatcher named Green, who has beaten out the regular end, Thompson, for the starting assignment. One of the fastest men on the squad, he is usually the first one down the field under kicks.

Probably the best tackle in Kemp, 212-pound left tackle, who has shown a great deal of improvement ever last year. The other tackle in a 190-pound player, Kiendl, who has beaten out last year's regular starter Magoe.

Stack is probably the best guard for the Elis, is fast, a good blacker, and packs his 215 pounds to advantage. Ruehel he other guard, who weighs in at 196 pounds, plays a lot like Chub "A.A." Peabody, and backs up the line when it shifts to a five man defensive setup.

Clark called Moseley, the Eli center, one of the best pivot men he has seen this year and compares him with Crego of Dartmouth as a rugged defensive player.

Willoughby Lost

Spike Nelson, the head coach, has a very acceptable list of backs in spite of the loss of Willoughby because of a recent injury. Two unheralded but promising Sophomores are Taylor and Ferguson who alternate at the tailback spot.

Yale has the requirements for the makings of an ideal backfield, according to Harlow, since it has two wingbacks who are lefthanded passers. They are Harrison and Hoopes.

Potts and Overlock take care of the whole blocking back job, while Seymour, who had been playing blocking back until Willoughby was hurt, has been shifted to fullback.

As Dick Harlow said at the sports writers' regular Monday noon quarterback session in Boston yesterday, Yale always plays one really good game during the season. He expects the Elis to play way over their heads this Saturday and he only has to think back to 1939, when an underdog Yale team knocked off Harvard, to find plenty of reason for worrying about this week's contest.

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HOT OFF THE GRIDIRON: Earl Brown, who is nearing the end of his first year as coach of the Crimson ends, came in for words of praise from Harlow at yesterday's dinner. Harlow said that "the end play has been magnificent," handing orchids to the former Notre Dame star, who had a tough piece of work cut out for him when he succeeded Wes Fesler as end coach.

Floyd Stahl, who is generally considered as one of the best football scouts in the East, has seen only three Harvard games in the four years he has been here as coach. . . . He will be the only coach on the squad who will not see this week's Yale contest, when he travels to Philadelphia for the Penn-Cornell game, gathering data for next year's team.