Hockey Team Battles Powerful Terriers Tonight

Harvard's hockey team faces the best team on its schedule tonight, and the odds are heavily against an upset. The Crimson's opponent. Boston University, has 17 of 20 lettermen returning from last year's national championship team.

The Terriers also have a considerable home ice advantage. B.U., with a generosity characteristic of such make-pit proprietors as Brown, Cornell and B.C., has allotted only 200 seats to Harvard fans in its new 4000 seat arena, which is sold out for tonight's 7:30 p.m. game. Last year, Harvard eliminated its home ice advantage by giving B.U. almost half of undersized Watson Rink.

The Crimson can find some hope in the early season games of both teams. While the Crimson showed signs of unexpected scoring punch in its surprisingly lopsided 11-3 win over Penn, B.U. has had more trouble with its first three opponents.

Sophomore-laden Yale, working its way up towards respectable mediocrity after a few miserable seasons, held B.U. to a 6-3 win. The Terriers escaped Brown's home ice by a 3-0 margin, but a relatively unheralded UNH team gave B.U. a hard time before falling by a single goal, 2-1.

B.U. is having some unanticipated difficulty with its offensive game, but it is unlikely that the Terriers will have to worry about their defense this season. The entire defense from last year's 28-2-1 team has returned, including probably the best defensive pair in the East, Bob Brown and Ric Jordan.

As sophomores, Brown and Jordan were both among the high scorers on the B.U. team, and this year the Junior defensemen are tied for second in B.U. scoring with five points apiece.

B.U. has two excellent goalies in Tim Reagan and Dan Brady. Reagan and Brady have split the goal tending duties evenly thus far, recording identical 1.33 goals against averages. Reagan started for over half the season last year until he clutched against Cornell, enabling Brady to move into the acts for the rest of the season.