Soccer Team to Face Test In Ivy Game With Cornell

A lot of questions will be answered this morning when the already fabled but still untried varsity soccer team meets its first real test of the season in Cornell on the Business School field at 11 a.m.

Discounting Wednesday's easy 5-0 defeat of Tufts as genuine proof of Crimson strength, Coach Bruce Munro is looking to the season's first Ivy League game to supply the answers. "After Cornell," he said, "I may be ready to climb way out on the end of a limb."

Ten Returning Lettermen

With ten returning lettermen, a good crop of sophomores, and the enthusiasm engendered by a new coach, Cornell played perennially strong Penn to a scoreless tie Saturday and finally beat them in overtime, 1 to 0. "Either both lines lacked scoring punch," Munro commented, "or there were some terrific defenses. I have a feeling it was the latter."

From the Penn game, Cornell also has the advantage of experience in an Ivy League contest this year. League restrictions on substitution add to a generally higher level of play to make League games "different from anything we've seen this year," Munro said.

Harvard goes into today's game at slightly less than full strength. Tufts may not have injured anyone's pride, but the slow, rumbling Elephants did inflict a number of minor injuries on Crimson players. "On the whole," Munro reported, "they banged us up pretty badly."

Slick halfback Emmanuel Boye is limping badly from a charley horse suffered Wednesday. Halfback Tony Davies and right outside Ebenezer Klufio will start, but both will be slowed by the same problem. On the left wing Mike Kramer is nursing a painful ankle injury which makes him an uncertain starter.

But there's nothing wrong with Chris O'Hiri, the Crimson's amazing centerforward. O'Hiri grinned when he learned yesterday that the Ivy season scoring record is eight goals. Cornell will give him his first chance to launch an assault on that figure.

"No One-Man Team"

Behind O'Hiri is a team which continues to approach the level of the preseason speculation about it. The number of near-miss shots at Tufts by inside Seamus Malin and halfbacks Davies and Billy Ward indicates that more than one man on the team can score. The steady stream of passes from the halfbacks and Captain Ted Wendell indicates that they will.

The Harvard defense is somewhat of an unknown quantity since it was hardly pressed by Tufts. Fullbacks Louie Williams and Charley David and goalie John Adams all looked good Wednesday, but for that matter, who didn't?

"This team is 100 per cent behind O'Hiri," Munro said, "and it is no oneman team." No matter how much publicity O'Hiri gets, he added, "soccer people will know that this is not a one-man team."