Sextet Opens Last Leg Of Schedule at Cornell

The Harvard hockey team travels to the hostile environment of Cornell tonight to begin the last leg of its 1964-65 season. The Crimson has just six games left on its schedule--all with Ivy League teams--and must win them all to even up its 6-12 record.

But the chances of a win tonight are slim, to say nothing of the hopes of six straight. With its 13-6 record, Cornell is one of the top teams in the East, and the Big Red has already edged the Crimson 3-2 in Cambridge.

In its first four league games, Harvard has won but one, from Princeton. The Crimson will have to skate a lot better than it did in Monday's 3-1 loss to North-eastern if it wants to stay in the game tonight, but such rebounds have been common this season.

The battle for Crimson scoring honors has developed into a tight six-man race, with Pete Waldinger and Baldy Smith currently leading with 13 points each in 13 games. Gordie Price and Dennis McCullough follow with 12 points, and then come Jorge Gonsales and Kenny Burnos at 11. Gonsales and McCullough lead in goals with eight.

Cornell's 3-3 Ivy mark includes two wins over feeble Princeton as well as its victory in Cambridge. Its losses have all been by one goal, twice to Yale and once to Brown.

Thanks to victories by scores of 19-0 and 14-0 over Hamilton, Cornell has some terrific scorers. As of a week ago Doug Ferguson, one of three sophomore brothers on the Cornell squad, had 36 points in 17 games and was the third-highest scorer in the East.