Starting Fast but Fading Quickly, Lacrosse Team Bows to Quakers

The Harvard lacrosse team struck early with two goals in the first seven minutes, then flopped miserably to lose to an undefeated Penn squad, 10-3, Saturday in the Crimson's home opener.

The defeat marked the eleventh consecutive Ivy League loss for Harvard, in a string stretching back to 1965.

Slow starters in their first five games, Coach Bruce Munro's stickmen got going quickly Saturday, but three tallies each by Penn's Jim Patton and Bill Lawrence proved the Crimson's undoing. The visitors dominated play in the final three quarters to slosh to their fifth straight win this year on a muddy Cumnock Field.

Harvard's first midfield of Jim Kilkowski, Tom Nicosia, and Marty Cain turned in another strong showing, but, as has happened all spring, the Crimson failed to perform as a cohesive unit.

Kilkowski tossed in the first Harvard score after only two minutes of the first period. Sophomore Charley Ames's conversion of a Keith Hutchison feed five minutes later was Harvard's last tally until the final quarter, when Alan Timberlake got a hard shot past Penn goalie Howdy Coale.

In the intervening three-plus periods, it was all Penn. The Quakers missed only 11 of 21 shots, capitalizing on Harvard's weakened defense, which had practiced very little together because of injuries last week to Mike Ananis and Rick Loomis.

The Crimson freshmen smothered Deerfield Academy, 15-6, Saturday for their second straight victory. Attackman John Ince threw in six goals and assisted on another, and Paul Bloom tallied five.