RUGBY TEAM IS VICTORIOUS, FINISHES UNDEFEATED SEASON

Playing their final game of the season last Saturday, and for many Crimson players the last game of the war, Coach Syd Cabot's rugby team managed to defeat a powerful British Fleet Air Arm team 11 to 10 in some of the hottest rugby weather over witnessed on Soldiers Field.

Both teams were in their prime and the game, in spite of the heat that cut wind and endurance, was closely matched throughout. The British Flying Officers put up as stiff an opposition against the Crimson as has been seen this season, and Harvard scored only after the British led by 5 to 0.

Ausnit, Loos, Thomas Score

Early in the game Buchanan of the Flyers scored a try for three points, and Murray easily booted a conversion kick for an additional two points. Harvard, if anyone, was on the defensive from then on, with Johnny Loos and Steve Ausnit each scoring a try. Gwyn Thomas, playing in his final game before entering West Point in July, converted successfully after Ausnit's try. In the second half Willit of the Britishers scored and Ramsey converted, but Ausnit in some beautiful broken field running, also scored and the game ended at 11 to 10.

Harvard's lineup found Thomas as fullback, Bud Rowell and Frank Holcomb at wing, Johnny Loos and Captain Ausnit at the three-quarter position, Jon Pritchard playing his final game at stand-off half. Commander Keith Kear of the New Zealand Royal Navy and the Law School as scrum half, and Bob Kennedy, Al Weisberg, Fred Garfield, Frank Jessop, Don Cummings, Don Hodge, Rog Willson, and Robin Worthington in the forward positions.

Princeton Game Impossible

For the first season since Syd Cabot began coaching here five years ago, all six games played by the Crimson were with the British Empire. The Princeton game at Princeton had to be called off because of transportation difficulties, and with the war, there was no chance of even considering the pro-war Harvard-Yale Princeton rugby matches of Bermuda, which were played annually at spring vacation time until 1938.