GETTING STARTED

Pre-season practice is double hard work

By the time the students retained to Hanover for the official opening of College on September 24 the Big Green football team had been whipped into some semblance of a coordinated unit. For three weeks prior to that, however, the unpolished squad of 75 men had gone through some gruelling twice-a-day practice sessions, made harder this year because of the elimination of spring practice. These pictures show some of the preliminaries necessary to getting started on another season.

DOC POLLARD FINDS CAPT. PETE REICH OKAY

GETTING TAPED UP FOR HARD-HITTING WORK

NEW-SHOE BLISTERS ARE ALWAYS A FIRST-WEEK PROBLEM

ART THIBODEAU, EQUIPMENT CHIEF FOR 25 YEARS, BEGINS ANOTHER SEASON, WITH FOOTBALL MANAGER JOHN WILLIAMSON (R) LOOKING ON

LINE COACH JOHN DELL ISOLA FINDS PLENTY TO CORRECT DURING THE FIRST SCRIMMAGE

A SOPHOMORE HOPEFUL, guard Tex Levy, wastes no time, studying his plays while baking out a hip bruised in contact work.

TRAINING TABLE: All hands eat in the old Freshman Commons. After college opens this is an honor reserved for top squad members.

COACH TUSS McLAUGHRY QUIZZES THE SQUAD ON RULES IN A SKULL SESSION