Blizzard KO's Sports Schedule

This week's blizzard claimed yet another victim yesterday as Harvard coaches and athletic administrators battled to salvage what they could of this weekend's sports schedule. All contests have been either postponed or rescheduled because of transportation problems resulting from the storm.

To begin with, both of tonight's scheduled events-men's basketball at Columbia, and wrestling versus Princeton--will not be held. Beyond that, nothing is certain. Events are dancing around on the Harvard sports calendar like a bushel of Mexican jumping beans.

The Ivy League Championship tournament in women's basketball and swimming, originally scheduled to run today through Sunday at the IAB and Blodgett Pool may take place as a reduced, two-day event Sunday and Monday.

Penn and Princeton definitely cannot make the tourney, and Brown remains a question mark. If Gov. Dukakis extends the state of emergency through Saturday, the whole event will be postponed.

The hockey game scheduled at Cornell Wednesday remains up in the air. If a date cannot be scheduled soon, the two teams may play a home-and-home series February 21 and 22--the latter already set as the date of the home game with the Big Red.

Administrators have not yet decided on the men's track meet versus Army tomorrow. Coach Bill McCurdy is trying to arrange a meet at some intermediate location, possibly Worcester.

The home wrestling matches against Princeton and Penn, the latter scheduled for tomorrow, have tentatively been incorporated into a four-way meet at Yale Saturday afternoon.

Although the basketball team cannot make it to Columbia tonight, the Crimson may be able to play the Lions Sunday, then journey to Cornell Monday for a game originally scheduled for tomorrow.

At present, squash coach Dave Fish hopes to hold Saturday's squash match versus Penn on Monday, but no decision has been reached.

The men's and women's fencing matches at Cornell have been cancelled.

"Until this whole emergency thing is off, we don't know where we're headed," Dave Matthews, sports information director, said last night.

Even the downhill and cross-country ski teams expressed displeasure with the snow conditions yesterday, since the driving ban threatened to keep them from arriving at the Dartmouth winter carnival.

"We've been vacillating back and forth on this thing," a member of the team who asked to remain unidentified, said last night, "and the plan right now is to make a run for it tomorrow morning."

"One guy made it already this morning," he added.