Lacrosse Team May Lack Goalie In Final Home Tilt Against Green

If importance and excitement are crowd-pullers--and they usually are--today's lacrosse game with Dartmouth at 3 p.m. on the New Playing Field should draw the biggest attendance of the year. This, incidentally, will be the Crimson's final home appearance of 1952.

The Crimson may well go against the Big Green without the services of its star goalie, Dick Thomas. Thomas was injured in the leg during the last minute of Tuesday's practice and the doctors still don't know whether or not he'll be able to play today.

Coach Bruce Munro is distressingly blunt about the Crimson's chances: "If Thomas plays," he says, "it'll be a game; if not--well, that's that.

"Ed Curtis has done a good job understudying Dick, but he's primarily an attackman; it's taken him a little while to get the hang of playing goalie."

Another doubtful starter is sophomore first-midfielder Skip Baldwin, who's also fighting a leg injury. With Baldwin out, Munro would have to move Henry Wood up from the third unit, and try to beat the rough-playing Indians with only two midfields, a very tough assignment.

Dartmouth--which has goalie problem of its own--is nonetheless quite confident A recent issue of the "Daily Dartmouth' calls Harvard "one of the easier teams' on the Big Green's schedule. And the same story mistakenly refers to Yale as the 1951 New England League Champion--of course the Crimson won the honors last year. The "Dartmouth" made this same error of rating Harvard last year