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...Coach Roper deviated from his usual custom at this point in the season by closing the doors of the Palmer Stadium, and inaugurating strictly maintained secret practice. It is expected that he will continue these closed work-outs through-out the season, except that the student body will be admitted on one day of each week's practice. The custom of issuing special blue pass slips to the undergraduates will not be continued this year...
Contrary to Jones' practice, Coa Roper gave all his first-string men a refollowing the Swarthmore game. The second and third string men scrimmage most of the afternoon and showed noting to contradict the statement that go substitute material is going to be one Roper's great problems. The signal practice run through by the first team winmarked by the first appearance in the line-up of Garrity, last year's life plunger, and the man whose clever interference was directly responsible for Scheerer's winning touchdown again Yale last November...
From the way in which Roper is assigning Lourie to the quarterback position during signal practice and light scrimmages, it appears that to the former Exeter captain falls the unenviable job of filling Strubing's shoes...
...Swarthmore game Saturday will be a real test of the squad's strength, to be measured not so much by the size of the score rolled up against the Pennsylvanians as in the first display of form exhibited by several of last year's squad upon whom Coach Roper has been heavily counting for the coming year...
Apparently Roper's problem lies in the middle of the line, where the gaps caused by the departure of Captain McGraw, Bigler, Parisette, Morgan and Baker, seem very difficult to fill satisfactorily. Thomas, who substituted for Captain Callahan at center in both the "big games" of last fall, has been moved into a guard position flanking Callahan, who is thus left without a first-rate substitute. Coach George Funk '15, in charge of the centers, has been forced to requisition backfield members and train them to the snapper-back position. As yet, Opie, whose running was chiefly responsible...