Back to coach Harvard football after two-and-a-half years with the Navy, Coach Richard C. Harlow, in a press conference yesterday afternoon, expressed complete sympathy with the College's war-time informal sports program.

With the fall term slated to start September 24, Harlow will, start football practice in August for the season beginning October 6. The schedule has not been announced yet, but it will not be broken up, as in the past two years, by examinations at trimester end late in October.

The 55-yard-old coach, still not discharged, went on inactive duty June 12. Commissioned a Lieutenant Commander on December 1, 1942, Harlow spent eight months in the mid-Pacific worrying about U.S. submarines in the China Sea. He took sick out there and was hospitalized for two months. For the past eight months he has been in charge of a rest camp north of Mare Island, California.

Pays Tribute to Marines

"But all I did was worship guys who are great guys," Dick said yesterday. "From now until the day I die when a Marine passes me in the street I'm ready to salute him."

Back in civvies, looking fit if slightly balder, and lacking the famous cigar, Harlow bantered with newsmen about who-is-where in the global war. Asked about chances for men whose football was interrupted by the war, Harlow said that the whole All-American team immediately after the last war was from the AEF. "The average football player will play better ball after he's out of service, I think," Dick said.