Brown Waltzes Over Soccer Team, 2-0

Midway through the second half of Saturday morning's soccer game against Brown, the Brown band marched around the Business School field, laughing and dancing the whole way. It was a fitting appearance, for on the field the Bruins were in the process of waltzing past Harvard to the tune of a 2-0 victory.

After the game, Crimson coach George Ford sounded some positive notes about his squad's performance against the powerful Bruins. "That was fantastic, super job," he chimed to his dejected players.

But despite Ford's praise for his team's gutsy performance, the Bruins played the game like a well-orchestrated symphony, controlling the tempo throughout and leaving the Crimson few chances to strike any surprise notes.

The first movement began at the opening kickoff and lasted only eight minutes, forty-five seconds. It ended with a crescendo at that point when Bruin Ray Schnettgoecke scored on an assist from Peter Van Beek.

The second movement followed a similar outline--only the players and the time of the goal were different. All-American Fred Pereira gathered in a pass from Allen Schauffler at 22:12 of the first half and drilled home the second goal of the game.

The third and final movement lasted until the final gun, as the Brown eleven conducted the flow of the game in a steady, boring, but virtually flawless style.

The Harvard booters, for their part, looked like the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra competing against the New York Philharmonic. That is, they put on a strong and inspired performance, but they were basically outclassed.

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Gutsy, hustling individual performances for Harvard came from forward Eric Zager, halfback John Senacore, fullback George Grassby (who had his hands full with Pereira) and goalie Fred Herold; but Harvard never put together an organized attack all day.

The only good chance to disrupt the Brown harmony came on a first-half penalty shot by Lee Nelson. There were to be no surprises in this symphony, however, and the Bruin goalkeeper stopped the shot on his only tough play of the game.

The game seemed more like a funeral march than a symphony for the Crimson, as it dropped their Ivy record to 1-3 and killed any hope for a strong league performance this year.