Matmen to Face Rutgers; Scarlet Knights Favored

The Crimson Wrestling team has been plagued all season long by an inability to pin their opponents.

Last Saturday Harvard matmen won five of nine matches at Pennsylvania--all by decisions--while Penn's Rich Sofman (123) and Ted Lansky (130) pinned Mike King and Brian Smith to give the Quakers a 16-15 win (a pin counts five points: a decision three).

Through four meets this year, Harvard wrestlers have come up with a total of one pin, by heavyweight Tack Chace against M.I.T., in the first match of the season.

If Harvard doesn't score a pin or two against Rutgers tonight in the I.A.B., the odds are pretty good that the Scarlet Knights can beat them. Rutgers traditionally makes hash of its Ivy League opponents and they've already beneath Yale 24-9 and Princeton 24-10 so far this year.

Like Penn, Rutgers has three veteran stars--123-pounder Don Pike, 191-pounder Bob Reader, and heavyweight Ed Schavek. Pike will face Crimson lightweight Pete Keeler, returning to the lineup after an illness; Raeder meets Ben Brooks and Shavek faces Chace.

In the only other switch in the Crimson lineup, Captain Fred Pereira, who wrestled at 177 against Penn, returns to 167, with Lamar Fertig going back to 177.