A ninth opponent for the 1947 Varsity football team was added to the Crimson schedule yesterday, with the announcement by the H.A.A. that the Western maryland eleven will visit the Stadium on September 27 as the opening foe for Coach Dick Harlow's forces next fall.

Western Maryland is best known around Cambridge because Harlow was head football coach and director of athletics at that institution from 1926 until April, 1935, when he was named to succeed Edward Casey '19 as pigskin mentor at Harvard, Line Coach Harold Kopp is a graduate of Western Maryland, having captained one of Harlow's teams there. The newly-scheduled contest will be the first gridiron meeting ever held between the two colleges.

Until yesterday's pronouncement, only eight games had been docketed for next season, with Boston University providing the Crimson's opening-game competition on October 4.