Varsity Wrestlers Favored Tonight In Tufts Contest

Robert Pickett, Crimson wrestling coach, described the team's chances of beating Tufts tonight as "good." Tufts lost to M.I.T. last week, while the Crimson won its first match.

In the five years Pickett has worked with the team it has won at least half of its season encounters. Tufts lost to Harvard, 28-3, last year as the Crimson accumulated a 6-4 record.

Varsity wrestlers competing tonight are Captain Kenneth Culbert, Philip Andrews, Taisno Arima, Robert Gilmor, Edward Keating, Leonard Miller, Michael Murray, and Robert Wynne. Wynne is a freshman.

The Yardling team will be made up of Charles Eaton, Skip Elsas, Joseph Goodman, Luke Marbury, John Moog, Thomas Myers, Kenneth Pruett, and Holyoke Whitney.

Freshman wrestling will take place at 7:00. Following this event, the varsity team will compete. The contest will be fought at Tufts.

Teams include eight men in different weight divisions. There is a maximum of three rounds to a bout, lasting three minutes apiece. In the first round the contestants will stand, while in the last two they will occupy a "down" position.

According to Pickett, members of each team were chosen from a group of 40 undergraduates.

The group represents those students interested in wrestling as an intercollegiate sport. Boxing, its sister sport, was taken from the intercollegiate level and made an intramural activity by the University 15 years ago.

In place of boxing team matches, there is an all-College intramural tournament held in the spring of each academic year.