LATE FOOTBALL START HARMFUL SAYS FARRELL

Real danger to players lies in the present Harvard-Yale agreement which prevents football training before September 15, according to E. L. Farrell, coach of the University track team and trainer of the football team.

"The early games of the football season are always hard ones and productive of injuries," said Coach Farrell. "The men have not attained the smooth efficiency of play that comes later in the fall, and carlessness leads to certain injury. A knock that late in the year might do no harm may cause serious injury at this early stage of the game.

Two Weeks Too Short

"There should be an adequate period of hard training to prepare the players for the hurts that will come early in the year, and which may later be avoided. Under the present agreement a scant ten days or two weeks remain between the opening of training and the first game. This year, for example, we played Geneva, a veteran team with a month's training behind it, in our first game after a very short training period. We were beaten, clearly outclassed, and overcome by a better-conditioned eleven.

"The first week in September should see the beginning of football training Easy conditioning work should follow, gradually becoming more strenuous, until the players are physically fit for the gruelling test of the first game. Under the present abbreviated training we cannot hope for fit condition in the opening game."