Harvard 69, Tufts 6.

That was in 1926, the last time Tufts appeared on Harvard football schedule until the war started. But that Tufts team was a far cry from the powerful squad that Coach Low Manly is bringing down from Medford Heights to open the Crimson season on Saturday afternoon. The present group of Jumbos scored a smash 14 to 6 upset over a highly-touted Coast Guard Academy team three weeks ago, and followed it up with a respectable loss to the triple-tier Yale gridmen this past Saturday. This is, according to all informed opinion, a far better squad than the one which bowed t the Crimson, 13 to 6, in last year's opener.

Coach Harlow isn't going to be caught napping, however; this season's Crimson squad may not be a second '41 machine, but It's a pretty fair team that's rounding into shape in the daily closed practice sessions at Soldiers Field.

The line, although not the best in Crimson history, more than makes up for its lack of experience by imposing weight, tipping the scales at something over a 200 pound average.

No starting position are definite yet, and Coach Harlow is still looking for new material, but a tentative, lineup would certainly include Rod Perkins and Lou DiLuzio at the ends, Chet Pierce and Bill "Willow" Fisher at the tackles, Howle Foster and Mal Allen or Frank LeBart at the guards, and Pete Grady, Bob Faber, or Paul O'Leary at center.

The backfield is in a more fluid state right now, with Jack MacDonald and Tom Tennant alternating in the blocking back slot, Bill Jenkins, Herb Fritts, and Pete Harwood sharing the wingback duties, Leo Flynn, ken O'Donnell, Bill Jackson, and Charley Roche handling the tallback job, and Bob Cowen and Hal Miller filling in at fullback.

Perkins, Pierce, Foster, Allen, O'Leary, Jenkins, MacDonald, Fritts, Harwood, and Cowen are veterans of Henry Lamar's '44 informal team, which piled up a respectable record of four and one. Fisher, Flynn, O'Donnell, DiLuzio, and Miller have just returned from the wars; the first two saw much service on the '42 team, last formal squad to take the field for Coach Harlow, and they are being counted on heavily this year. Ken O'Donnell, a flight leader with 34 missions to his credit, is a younger brother of Cleo O'Donnell of '42 Varsity fame, and will see much action at tailback along with Flynn, who is also an Air Force veteran.