Crimson Ruggers Meet Wall Street In Opener Today

The Crimson will begin a new sports rivalry in Brooklyn's Redhook Stadium at 11 a.m. today, as the rugby team opens its season against the newly-formed Wall Street Rugby Club.

Dwight Hyde, the Wall Street captain, calls his team "fairly ragged rugby players, but fairly good physical specimens."

The squad contains seven ex-Crimson football players, including Hyde and '51 captain Red Wylie, as well as two from Yale.

The Crimson ruggers, by contrast, will be fairly polished players but light physically. Most members of the squad are experienced, although only three of them were Crimson regulars last spring, but the demands of the football team have left the ruggers without much potential as a flying wedge.

Leading this year's influx of foreign players is the Business School's Alan Wadell, who was invited to the trial match for likely candidates for the Scottish International side. The other half back will be freshman Don Shojai, a Persian who learned his rugby in England.

Most of the weight in the scrum will be provided by newcomers Tony Markella and Bob Shane, the two locks, ex-Williams rugger Bob Huff at prop, and Eighthman Terry Turner, starting his fourth season for the Crimson.

Although this team does not compare with the side that whipped yale and Princeton last spring, it looks like the best fall squad the Crimson has produced in some time. And it should rub some of the frayed edges off the men from Wall Street.