Soccer Eleven Opens With Rugged Springfield Squad

The national Collegiate soccer champions of 1946 and 1947 provide the opposition as Bruce Munro's Varsity booters open their season this afternoon at 2 o'clock on the Business School Field.

Springfield College, for the last two years undefeated and untied, comes to Cambridge today, and a Crimson victory over them would definitely be received as an upset among the U.S. soccer fraternity. With All-American John Hogan at center halfback and only one rookle on their starting eleven, the physical education students play a hard-running game and beast a defense which last year yielded only one goal to opponents.

For the past two weeks, Munre, the new Harvard coach, has been experimenting with different combinations, and will field a team tomorrow composed largely of veterans of last year's first squad. Halfback Dick Saul, inside Charlie Weiss, and fullback Rick Drake are the only starters who were not on the Varsity squad in 1947.

Coach Munro thought his team had developed well in the two weeks of drills and scrimmages but added, "I've never seen any of the boys in a game."

The starting lineups: HARVARD  SPRINGFIELD Dawson  ol  Sinos Potter (capt.)  il  Bird Estin  cf  Schlossberg Weiss  ir  Bridgman Spivak  or  Zenaby Carswell  lhb  MacDonald Carodney  chb  Hogan Saul  rhb  Pappas Scully  lfb  Morehouse Drake  rfb  Montinho (c'pt.) Batchelder  g  Moore