Crimson Quintet Takes Last Crack at First E.I.B.L. Victory Against Favored Bulldogs

Crimson basketball fans will get their last chance to see this year's team in action when the varsity plays Yale at 8 p.m. tonight in the I.A.B.

The Elis will be aiming at their 14th victory to finish with a .500 won-and-lost season's record, while the home team will be trying to salvage its first Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball victory in 12 games.

Coach Norm Shepard will start the same team tonight which lost by six points to the Elis at New Haven Saturday. Bill Dennis, who scored 21 points against Yale, will play one forward with Captain John Stevenson at the other. Dick Lionette will start at center with Ed Condon and Ed Krinsky at the guards. This marks the final college game for Stevenson, who is graduating along with Bill Hickey, Gerry Murphy, and Amby Redmond.

Tonight, Yale will be playing its first game since defeating the third-place E.I.B.L. team, Pennsylvania, last Tuesday. In that match, their best of the year, the Elis combined a tight defense with a sharp offense to win, 91 to 64, in one of the biggest upsets of the year.

Four Yale players dropped in more than ten points that night for the second straight game--they did it to the Crimson on Saturday--indicating the varsity's hitherto porous defense may have trouble tonight.

Blue Coach Howard Hobson will probably start two seniors in his lineup, Captain Ed McHugh at guard and Terry Buchanan at forward. Buchanan was particularly ineffective against the Crimson at New Haven and was soon replaced by sophomore Jim Plecas. McHugh, however, has long been a Crimson nemesis, leading his team's victory over the Crimson in the I.A.B. last year with 20 points and notching 17 last Saturday.

The two sophomores who will start for Yale tonight together netted 33 points in the last Crimson game. Both Spence Schnaitter at center and Blair Leroy at guard are speedy men who fit easily into the Yale fast-break offense. The other Blue starter will be junior John Weber, whose hook shot baffled the Crimson defense last week