Yale's First-Class Lacrosse Squad Should Beat Harvard Tomorrow

Crimson fans who do not like to see Harvard lose better avoid tomorrow's lacrosse game at Yale.

The match pits Harvard against a first-class Eastern team and will complete a dismal season for the Crimson stickmen.

Harvard started well with a good spring trip, but since returning north the team has won only two out of eight games, both against non-Ivy opponents.

Yale, however, sports a 3-2 Ivy record and has lost only to Cornell and Brown, who are ranked number two and three in the East.

The Bulldogs mediocre Ivy mark is somewhat deceiving. They have knocked off both Army and Johns Hopkins, two of the other top five clubs in the East.

In order for Harvard to rate an even chance against the Bulldogs, the team needs a few new sights: a defense that can play four solid periods and stop all- America Mac Bradford, a tight-scoring attack, and a horseshoe for goalie Ron Wilson.

After the last seven games--the Holy Cross massacre excepted--it is hard to believe that the Crimson defense will not take at least one deleterious siesta during tomorrow's 60 minutes.

Even if the Crimson defense gets a good night's sleep for the game. Yale's tough defensemen are still big enough to manhandle relatively light Harvard attackmen. The Crimson does not have the hard shooters needed for the far-out offense into which the team has been forced.

Wilson--no doubt playing the best he can--will have to come up with the biggest game of his career. Until now his two-year layoff from organized lacrosse seems to have done him much harm. Shots which most of the Ivy goalies would have a fair chance of stopping Wilson never sees.