Rugby Team to Meet M.I.T. This Afternoon In Practice Session

The varsity rugby team will slip and slide on a damp Cambridge field this afternoon in a practice session with M.I.T. at 4 p.m.

The squad suffered one of its most unfortunate setbacks last Monday when lock forward Orville Tice was put out for the rest of the season with a broken transverse process. In the same practice Alastair Rellie and Jim Lopez, former Yale football player, were also injured, but are expected to return by next Tuesday's regular game with M.I.T.

Today's practice match will be a conditioner for the official opener on Saturday with the visiting Montreal Rugby Club and for next week's matches at the University of California.

The California Bears lost their first match last Saturday to the University of British Columbia after ten straight undefeated games. Also during the weekend Yale defeated M.I.T., 5 to 3, at Smith College.