Rugby Team Could Make Japan Tour

A Rugby Club triumph over Princeton this Saturday could send the team winging to Japan in the spring.

The Yawata Iron and Steel Company's New York office is looking for a top notch Ivy squad to play a championship company team in Tokyo over spring vacation. Captain Quentin B. Spector considers the Tiger game crucial to the club's chances of making the trip.

Princeton is the fifth team that the ruggers have tackled this fall So far, they have beaten M.I.T., Tufts, and Wesleyan, and tied Dartmouth Spector rates the team's chances against the remainder of their winter season opponents as good. After Saturday's game, the team must face Brown, the Boston Rugby Club, and the more than 30 eastern teams participating in the Seven-Asides tournament in New York City November 27.

The club now lists around 40 active members including undergraduates, three assistant professors, and several law students.

At Harvard, as at all eastern colleges rugby is organized on a club basis. This means that the sport is officially independent of the University, and that the Department of Athletics doesn't support it financially or supply a coach.

The game against Princeton kicks off at 11:15 a.m. on the Rugby Field behind the tennis courts. The B team contest is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the same location.