Booters Score Quickly To Squash M.I.T., 4-0

Harvard soccer coach Bruce Munro is a merciful man. He proved it last Saturday in the B.U. game and again on Wednesday when he turned what could have been a romp into a 4-0 victory for the Crimson over M.I.T.

After the well-coordinated Harvard forwards scored their fourth goal of the game early in the third quarter, an unidentified player on the M.I.T. bench yelled. "Do something about that combination," and Munro did. He let his reserves play practically all of the second half.

The game was the final tuneup for the Harvard booters before the Ivy season which opens Saturday against Columbia.

It wasn't until the 14-minute mark in the first period that the Crimson broke the scoring ice. Richie Hardy, the sophomore center halfback who has been a very pleasant surprise for Munro so far this year, passed through a pack of Techmen in front of their goal. Harvard inside Bruce Detora kicked the ball toward the goalie, Jeff Reynolds, who batted it right into the waiting foot of Ahmed Yehia. A second later, Yehia had tallied his fifth goal of the young season.

Munro shuffled his forwards throughout the afternoon, since his starting right wing, sophomore Gerry Montero, showed up lame with a sprained ankle ad couldn't play. So the Crimson coach played Detora. Geoff Keppel, and Peter Millock about equally in the fifth forward slot.

But whatever forwards happened to be playing, they managed, partly by their own skill and partly by the porosity of the Tech defense, to set up goals. There were six shots--each a certain goal--that were kicked over the net, and four others which were just wide of the mark.

Hoeppner Tallies

The second Crimson tally, which came midway in the second quarter, was entirely the work of Lutz Hoeppner, the husky senior from Bombay. India Hoeppner outran three enemy defensemen along the right side of the field and booted the ball past Reynolds into the left-hand side of the field and booted the ball past Reynolds into the left-hand side of the goal.

Two minutes later, Keppel took a beautiful lead pass from Jaime Vargas as he cut in from his right wing slot and scored the third tally of the day.

The final score, which came after shots by Vargas and Scott Robertson went over the net, was scored by the M.I.T. defense. Vargas, being the last Crimson player to touch the ball, got official credit for the goal, which saw the ball bounce past Reynolds after an M.I.T. man kicked it away from Vargas.

Yesterday, the Harvard junior varsity booters kept up their winning ways by drubbing Tufts, 5-1, for their second straight victory.