Crimson Booters Battle Quakers; Harvard's 3-Game String At Stake

Penn should become the Harvard soccer team's fourth straight Ivy victim at Soldiers Field this morning; but the Crimson has been so erratic this season that predicting anything more than an exciting game would be dangerous.

Penn's record is 2-1 in the Ivy League and 3-3-1 overall. The run of the Quakers' scores has not been impressive, but Penn, according to Harvard coach Bruce Munro, "is the only Ivy League school that has never sent a bad team onto the field against me."

The presence of All-Ivy Roger Lorberbaum at left wing poses a cotinual scoring threat for the Red and Blue. Lorberbaum challenged Harvard's Charlie Njoku for the Ivy scoring crown last fall. So far this season he has scored a goal with eight seconds to play to beat Haverford, 2-1, and another with ten seconds remaining in the second overtime to edge Princeton, 2-1, last Saturday.

Low Scoring

The Quakers set up Lorberbaum with cross-field passes from their halfbacks, a maneuver that can only be stopped by hustle in the Crimson backfield.

Brown had little trouble stopping the Quakers, registering a 6-1 win in the mud three weeks ago. The game wasn't all that lopsided, as the Bruins picked up four of their goals in the final 11 minutes.

Penn's first Ivy win was over Cornell, 4-2. The Big Red, which seems to bring out the best in its opposition, only scored on a penalty shot and a kick in the wrong direction by a Penn fullback.

The Red and Blue lost to Navy, 2-1, Swarthmore, 1-0, and tied Temple, 2-2, in its other games. Like Dartmouth, Penn has a strong defense, led by goalie Ted Isaacson, but not much of an attack to the right of Lorberbaum.