Harvard Freshman Squads Beat Yale 4 Times, Lose 3

The Harvard freshman winter sports teams captured four out of seven contests with their Yale counterparts in recent weeks.

The Yardlings won in squash, track, wrestling and hockey, but lost in swimming, fencing and basketball.

The squash team whipped Yale 9-0 to finish the season undefeated -- 12-0. Harvard showed its strength by winning eight of the nine positions in three straight games. Coach H. Corey Wynn said that he thought "Yale fought hard but didn't seem as strong as they have sometimes been."

In wrestling, pins by Don Scott (160) and Paul Catinella (137) led the team to a decisive 27-11 victory at Yale.

Jim Abbot came from behind to gain a 6-5 win over previously undefeated Buzz Potts of Yale, as the Crimson rapped up its fourth win against four losses and a tie. Coach John Lee's teams now have a 7-3-1 record against Yale.

Yale held the freshman hockey team to a 1-1 tie in that first period, but the Yardlings iced the game with three goals in the second period and five more in the third. Harvard's offense outshot Yale 77 to 15: Ron Mark and Jim Baldassari scored three goals each.

Breakaways

In the third period, the Crimson team showed its speed and endurance as three times it broke away from the tired Elis to score goals.

The Yale basketball team overpowered the freshmen 70-54 at Yale. The best Crimson performance came from Bill McBride who scored 19 points, while Jerry O'Neil, the Yardlings usual strongman was held to seven.

Yale's all front line controlled both backboards and paced the Elis to an eight point half-time lead. A brief Crimson rally in the second half fell short.

Harvard actually dropped the game at the foul line, where they were outscored by 14 points. The hoopsters final record is 10-5.

The Harvard freshman fencers suffered a 22-5 thrashing at Yale's hands, but the bout was closer than the score indicates. Harvard lost 10 of the 27 matches by 5-4 scores. Coach Edo Marion explained the team's 2-6 record, saying that with beginning players it is more important to learn the fundamentals of technique, mechanics and speed before learning to use these elements in a bout.

The freshman track team pulled out a narrow victory in the Big Three. They scored 58 1/2 points against Princeton's 58 and Yale's 20 1/2. Yale clobbered the swimming team, 83-11, winning every event.