House, College Teams Face Yale In Climactic Contests of Season

Fourteen enthusiastic House teams, including the champions of soccer, touch and tackle football will face their Yale counterparts this afternoon in the traditional per-Yale football game contests. J.V. and freshman football, and freshman soccer squads will also descend on New Haven today for their final games of the season.

The Dunster football champions, who play Davenport College, the Yale champs, at 2:30 p.m., have rolled up an undefeated season. In the past three years, the Funsters have never lost, and have tied only twice. But in both Yale contests, they were unable to equal their home play, losing 14 to 7 in 1957 and 22 to 0 last year.

Eliot's 3 to 1 victory over Dunster in the soccer play-off Wednesday gives them the right to play Calhoun College, the winner of the Yale inter-house rivalry at 2 p.m. today. In the Wednesday contest, Eliot dominated the play, allowing the lone goal on a penalty in the last minute of the game.

The unbeaten and untied Winthrop touch football squad may not field as good a team at Yale as it has here because four of its first strong players are unable to attend. In its final game of the season, the Puritans crushed Adams, 71 to 19. After the first half, several starting players were able to leave since they were already winning 59 to 7. Winthrop faces Trumbull College at 2 p.m.

On the intercollegiate level, the freshman football team will be hampered by the loss of their star half back, Bill Hatch. The freshman soccer team enters today's contest with one loss (the season opener) and one tie. It won all six other games. An undefeated J.V. football squad hopes to end its season perfectly by whipping Yale.

The lone freshman dorm game, a touch football contest between Grays Hall and the winner of the Yale interdorm contest, takes place at 2 p.m. Grays tied the play-off game against Weld on Wednesday, but was elected to face Yale due to its earlier 7 to 5 victory over Matthews North, which Weld tied.

Two years ago, when Crimson teams last descended en masse on the Bulldogs, four of the seven Harvard House teams were defeated, two tied, and Adams came away with the only win by downing Silliman College 12 to 7.

In last year's contests, the Crimson managed to reverse the tide of Blue victories by winning six of the 11 contests, including two of the three championship games. Leverett defeated Pierson College 34 to 26 for the touch football title, and the Adams soccer team blanked Pierson 2 to 0 to take the booting laurels. At the same time, Dunster lost its football game for the second year in a row.