Booters Beat Lindenhurst In Soccer Scrimmage, 6-1

The Crimson soccer team flew down to Long Island Saturday to play in a friendly scrimmage with a highly-touted amateur team, the Lindenhurst Soccer Club. Lindenhurst was so friendly that it allowed the Crimson to score six goals; Harvard, not so genial, allowed only one goal.

With all its talent and potent attack, the Crimson soccer team could not find a team in the New England area that wanted to scrimmage. B.U. volunteered, but twice found themselves blanked out, totally outmaneuvered and outscored.

The Lindenhurst Soccer Club, confident of their abilities to defeat any college team, even the second-ranked Crimson team, took on the challenge. After all, they were the Long Island Amateur Champs.

Before three minutes had passed in the first half, Cha-lie Thomas, one of the Crimson's two attack men, had scored the first of his two goals with Chris Ferner assisting.

Even though Harvard scored early, its attack in the opening minutes was erratic in the backfield, and Lindenhurst controlled the middle of the field.

Zap

After ten minutes of fumbling around, the Harvard soccer team scored again. Taking a long pass from Thomas. So! Gomez zapped one past the Lindenhurst goalie. The goal by Gomez brought the team together, and for the next 11 minutes the Crimson played excellent soccer.

Gomez made the score 3-0 when he outdribbled the Lindenhurst defense. Peter Bogovich followed with the fourth goal of the game five minutes later. Bogovich was assisted by Thomas and John Gordon.

With a four-goal lead, coach Munro started to substitute. Lindenhurst finally managed to get a goal when a Crimson defenseman was outmaneuvered, and Shep Messing, the Crimson goalie for the first half, could not reach the bouncing ball.

Billy Meyers took over in the net in the second half and kept the Lindenhurst team from scoring any more goals.

The Lindenhurst goalie did not match Meyers's performance, as he saw two balls fly past him. Thomas took a short pass from Phil Kydes, who had brought it the length of the field and put it in for the fifth Crimson goal. Bogavich put his left toe into the ball for the final Crimson tally.

Although the Crimson would have appreciated a tougher battle from the Lindenhurst team, it did get some idea of the strengths and weaknesses of its new formation. If it can improve its passing and tighten play in the middle, the 1970 season might prove to be a succession of friendly scrimmages.