FORTE IS DISABLED BY SERIOUS INJURY

Having lost two teeth in last year's Yale game, Captain Don Forte, fleet right end on the Varsity football team, went to the other extreme Monday afternoon when he suffered a chipped bone in his right foot. He will be out of action for four weeks.

It could have happened at a worse time--perhaps, right before the Yale game--but not much worse. The injury, suffered in Monday's scrimmage, is little short of catastrophic, for it puts a dent in the Crimson attack which will take miracles to iron out.

Injuries Beset Ends

As the situation stands now, the man whom pre-season forecasters were picking for All-American honors this year, will be definitely out of the lineup in the North Carolina Pre-Flight game, the Pennsylvania game and the William & Mary game. With a little luck, he might possibly be in shape for the Dartmouth fray.

Forte's injury is in keeping with a time-honored tradition at Harvard that ends are particularly susceptible to football impairments. A few years ago Captain Bobby Green, playing the same position as Captain Don, was laid low with an injury halfway through the season. Two years ago left end Loren MacKinney went into the Yale game with a bad leg, while last year he emerged from the Dartmouth contest with another game leg.

Ends Have Depth

About the only silver lining in the whole affair is that if someone had to be injured, the ends can afford it best. In the persons of Pete Garland and Len Cummings Coach Harlow has enough material to bolster the post left vacant by Forte's incapacity. Few other positions on the squad have as much depth as does this department.

The fight for fullback has now developed into a three-cornered one between Wayne Johnson, Tom Cowen, and Paul Perkins. Everyone expected Cowen and Johnson to be fighting it out even before practice started, but Perkins is a comparative dark horse who has crept up to a position where he is a definite contender for the first string fullback berth.

Yesterday's workout consisted of a short scrimmage and defensive drill