Football, Soccer Teams to Challenge Bulldogs

The Houses will play their annual parts in the "Frantic Friday" festivities of the Harvard-Yale weekend today.

Each House--except for the championship teams--will face its Yale counter-part in football and soccer games starting at 2 p.m. on the House and Business School fields. The champions will meet in separate contests.

In football this year, Eliot House went 8 and 0 to win the championship hands down. Previous to this season, Dunster had won the championship three years in a row with an undefeated House record.

Led by quarterback Rog Skemp, the overpowering Elephant offense racked up 151 points to its opposition's mere 8. (Dunster scored the only TD against Eliot this fall.)

Ellot will battle Davenport in the big clash for the Harvard-Yale intramural football title at 2:30 p.m. on the varsity practice field. (Last year Davenport played Dunster for the title, and won 16 to 0.) In the football games last year. Adams House was the only Harvard representative that won, beating Saybrook 6 to 0.

Repeating as House soccer champion this year, Eliot lost only one out of ten contests, and earned the right to play Yale's best--Calhoun--at 2 p.m. on House field no. 3. Last year in the championship game Eliot beat Calhoun, 2 to 1, and became the only House to win against Yale in soccer.

Winthrop House, repeating at touch football champion, will meet Trumbull at 2 p.m. on House field no. 6. In the championship game last year Winthrop overcame Trumbull 36 to 12. In another touch football game, Massachusetts Hall takes on South Middle for the freshman title. There are only two games played in touch football.

A total of 15 contests in football, touch football, and soccer among teams representing both schools will be played today.

Each year the Harvard House champions meet the Yale College champions in football, touch football, basketball, hockey, soccer, squash, swimming, baseball, golf, rowing, tennis, and softball. The Edward S. Harkness Trophy goes to the college that wins the majority of the contests.

With its two championships in football and soccer, Eliot is off to a good start in the race for the Straus Trophy, which Kirkland has won the past four years. The Straus Trophy is awarded each year to the House with the best over-all record in inter-House athletic competition.