Booters Trip Williams, 2-1

The Crimson soccer team, supposedly the second best collegiate squad in the nation, barely won its third consecutive game yesterday as a scrappy Williams team held the Crimson to two goals. A concentrated effort by the Harvard defense, held the Ephmen to one tally.

The Williams team outshoot the Crimson 22-15, and challenged the Harvard defense continuously. The Crimson scored its two goals on individual efforts, and its attack lacked cohesiveness and direction. Coach Bruce, Munro's experiment with the 4-4-2 attack seems to be failing.

Solomon Gomez increased his season's total of goals to three with a tally in the first period, and Demetrio Mena scored his first goal of the season. Bill Geisler scored the Ephmen's only goal.

Long Bus Ride

Although the Harvard team had only about a two hour rest after a three and one half hour bus ride, the Crimson at tack in the early minutes did not resemble the kind of soccer Harvard fans have gotten accustomed to seeing during these past two seasons. Passes were flubbed, and some of the players forgot that they had teammates.

Gomez Goal

Gomez scored his goal on a corner-kick from Peter Bogovich. Bogovich kicked the ball high toward the Ephmen goal, and while the Williams goalie followed the flight of the ball, he failed to follow the flight of Gomez' head. The head and the ball collided, and Harvard had its first tally. The Williams goalie returned to his room to study Physics.

With 18 seconds left in the third period, the Crimson sophomore forward scored his varsity goal. Mena, the Crimson's shortest attack man, took a pass from Chris Papagianis, and moved the ball down the center. Probably expecting Gomez' head to appear again, the Williams goalie failed to watch Mena's foot. The Crimson led, 2-0.

Both teams stumbled along into the fourth period. The long passes continued but the Williamstown fans had one consolation: the ball could barely be seen against the darkening skies. With two minutes and nine seconds left in the soccer match, the Ephmen put the ball past the Harvard defense and Billy Meyers. Ephmen Geisler took a cross pass from Ronny Searles and put it past Meyers. It was the second successive time that the Harvard team had failed to preserve a shutout with only minutes remaining in the game.