Soccer Race Scrambled As Favorites Flounder

The Ivy League soccer race reaches the halfway point this weekend, with the eight teams about as well scrambled up as they could be.

No team has a perfect record; no team is without points under the league's scoring system, which awards two points for a win and one for a tie.

Preseason favorite Brown is languishing in a fourth-place tie with Harvard; on top are Yale and Princeton, teams that just weren't supposed to be that good.

The Elis and the Tigers are both 3-0-1, but here appearances may be deceiving. Yale has beaten only Cornell and Columbia, who are tied for last place at 0-2-1. The Elis also tied Brown.

Princeton also beat Columbia and squeaked by Dartmouth 2-1 to give the Indians their only defeat of the year. Penn, Harvard's opponent Saturday, tied Princeton last weekend.

The team that may be in the best shape of them all is Dartmouth.

Unlike the other league-leaders, the third-place Indians have gotten three of their toughest games out of the way, besting Harvard and Brown and losing to Princeton.

Harvard and Brown tied at 1-1-1, are followed by Pennsylvanis, a team doing slightly worse than expected. The Quakers tied league-leading Princeton but lost a 2-0 decision to Brown and were held to a tie by Cornell.