'43 Football Managerial Competition Starts Next Wednesday at 1:30 O'clock

The competition for Freshman football manager, long recognised as one of the outstanding and worthwhile extra-curricular activities for Freshmen, will begin on Wednesday, September 27, at 1.30 o'clock in the Varsity Club. This competition offers Freshmen not only an excellent way of meeting their classmates, as well as men in other classes, but affords them a chance to get acclimated to prevent them from being overwhelmed by the complete freedom of college life.

The competition will consist of work on the fields with the Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Freshman teams as well as some work in the locker rooms of these teams. The assignments of the competitors are so rotated from day to day that each gels an equal share of the work with each team. On game days the candidates are divided between the Freshmen and Varsity games with the majority of them working with the Varsity. Again, of course, the work is rotated so that each man gets acquainted with the work of the different jobs. It might be worthwhile here to mention that there are usually one or two competitors that go with the teams on the trips.

Competition Ends November 11

The competition will end the night of the Varsity game with Army, November 11, so as to give the winning candidate, who will be in charge of the Yale Freshman game, and his selected assistants, a week to prepare for it. From this competition, several men are chosen to compete in the Sophomore year for the post of assistant manager their Junior year and Varsity manager their Senior year.

An assistant Junior Varsity manager and assistant head Freshman manager are also picked from this Sophomore competition. The leading candidate in the Freshman competition is awarded his numerals and is in charge of the Freshman game with Yale.

Because of the much increased amount of time that a student has to put on his work, the competition routine has been out down a great deal, and instead of causing men's marks to fall, has in many cases aided with their work as it provided a regulating influence without which they would have been lost in the first few months of college.