Crimson Nine to Open Twentieth Season With Dartmouth April 8

In a return to the single round-robin type schedule, the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League has abandoned two division competition adopted last year when the League expanded to ten teams.

The season opens April 8, with Columbia at Navy. Harvard plays its first game April 24 here with Dartmouth, and completes the season at Yale, May 15.

This year's schedule will be the most concentrated in the EIBL, 23 year history. Every team finishes before the mid-May final exams. The compact schedule enhances the possibilities of playing-off pennant ties or rained-out games.

This will be the Crimson's 20th year in the League. Army, Navy, and Brown joined in 1948. Last year Brown won the "northern" division title and Cornell the "southern," but no play-off was held.

Other Harvard games are with Navy here on April 25, at Pennsylvania May 1, at Princeton on May 2, away at Army May 8, at Columbia May 9, with Cornell here on May 11, and at Brown May 13.

Coach Stuffy McInnis hopes for a better season this year than last, when his squad netted a middling 6-11 record, including an embarrassing loss of three straight games to Yale.