Crimson Linksmen Host Cornell Today In First Ivy Meet

Harvard's golf team tees off against Cornell today in its first Ivy League match following a dismal season opener at Annapolis last week.

The Crimson will bring to Concord a team that lost only one man from its '72 squad. Crimson Coach Bob Harrison, in his last year at the gold helm, expects a match similar to last year's tough Cornell contest in which Harvard sneaked by with a four-stroke win.

The Crimson fell to perennially tough Penn State and Navy last Saturday by 28 strokes in a tri-meet at Annapolis. Top Crimson golfer Art Burke shot a disappointing 87 while former number two man Quin Smith failed to qualify.

'Hampered' By Cornell

Smith said the Crimson will be hampered today because they've never played on their new home course at Concord. He added that they will also be hampered by a very strong Cornell team, which recently placed high in match with a number of golf-oriented southern schools.

Harrison said he expects to improve on last year's 9-5 record, which was capped off by a ninth place finish in the Eastern Collegiate Championships. Cornell finished fifth in the same tournament.

"It's tough for us at the beginning of the season though," Harrison said, "because we just finished a week of practice in Florida, where the courses are wide and flat as opposed to our narrow and hilly courses up here."