POWERFUL ELIS ARE FAVORED ON TRACK

The Harvard track team will be decidedly the underdog when it travels to New Haven to oppose the Eli track and field men Saturday afternoon. But Harvard's track teams have a habit of outdoing themselves against the Blue and this year's group in particular has showed an ability in the Dartmouth meet to fight for the split point and the final third place.

Yale Has Paper Margin

Yale has a great dual meet team. Pennsylvania, with the strongest aggregation in the East, barely nosed out the Elis three weeks ago, but Princeton was snowed under on Saturday by an avalanche of record Eli times and distances. It is impossible to compare he summaries of the Yale-Princeton and Harvard Dartmouth meets without seeing that the Crimson must outdo itself to destroy Yale's paper edge.

Farrell is Optimistic

Harvard has not defeated Yale on the New Haven track for 14 years, but Coach Farrell is not worried. He is not disturbed by the papers. He dopes his men to win; he figures what they must accomplish to do so; and he counts on their living up to expectations. His men are on the up-grade, but the bad weather of the past two days has interfered with the intensive training he had planned. Yale, on the other hand, reached the peak of its form last Saturday, and will not be hurt so much it this week's practice is slowed up by rain.

The Crimson has suffered severely this season from injuries, but it is hoped that all men previously disabled will be in condition for the Eli met, and the full strength of Harvard's track squad will make the journey to New Haven.

The dopesters give Yale a 15 point advantage. They did so last year, and Harvard upset them with an astounding win.

Meanwhile the Freshman track team is preparing to avenge a possible defeat of the University runners by taking the first yearling meet from the Blue in 20 years. Last year the outcome of the first year meet was in doubt until the last event, when three Eli cubs cleared the bar at 11 feet to sweep nine points in the pole vault and slightly dim the glory of the University victory.

But with E. E. Record '32 in the hurdles and N. P. Hallowell '32 in the middle distance runs leading a powerful aggregation, 1932 seems to have an excellent chance to overthrow the jinx of the Blue yearling meet. While the Yale Freshmen bowed to Princeton, 73 to 62, last Saturday, the local first year men were trouncing Exeter and setting up some remarkable times, though somewhat aided by the favoring wind conditions of the Academy track