'45 QUINTET TO PLAY ELIS AT NEW HAVEN

Trying to snap out of a two-game losing streak and come up to its early season promise, the Yardling quintet will journey down to New Haven to meet the Yale Cubs tonight.

On the basis of comparative records, the game figures to be as close, if not as thrilling, as Wednesday night's Dean encounter. Up to last Friday, the only two games the McCoymen had lost were to Exeter and Andover, and the Elis bowed to the same schools by scores similar to the Crimson's.

The Blue should also be "high" for this game, trying to end the season in the win column after their string of three successive victories was broken by Princeton last week.

Forwards Frank Bixler and Dean Hennessy, center Mike Keene, and guards Mike DeLeo and Don Richards will start the game for Harvard as they have started every other game this year.

Fred Chase, Sam Post, Dick Forster, Bruce Smart, and Danny Garelick will also make the trip.

Captain Guy McGaughey, the Yale center, will be meeting old rivals in Bixler and Keene, for all three were on the all-star team of the Midwest Prep School Conference last year.

Phil Miles, younger brother of two Eli hoop greats, will take one of the guard positions with Al Gabriels, smallest man on the starting five, as his running mate. Sam Haviland and Hack Noyes, who were starting members of the soccer and football teams this fall, will be the forwards.

Just returned from the restrictions of probation, Jack Breuner will undoubtedly see action for the home team, since he was originally the starting center. Other reserves who should get in are Ted Bassett, Neil Currie, Charlie Hunt, Buck Bradley, Bolt Elwell, and Bill Mayer.