Four Sophomores Start as Basketball Schedule Begins With Tech Tonight

A Harvard basketball team, only one of whose members has ever played in a varsity game before and only one of whose members can call himself six feet, opens its season against a tall, experienced M.I.T. outfit this evening at 8:45 o'clock on the Indoor Athletic Building floor.

Coach Wesley Fesler is depending on the speed and agility of his quintet to counteract the height of the Engineers and to give the Crimson revenge for the 29 to 24 defeat suffered at the hands of its downstream neighbors last year in the opener.

Four Crimson Sophomores

Outside of Captain Charley Lutz at forward, an outstanding ball handler and shot, the starting five for the home squad will be composed entirely of Sophomores. Bill Webber at the other forward post, Bud Finegan at center, and Ed Buckley and Joe Romano at the guards were all members of last year's speedy Yardling five that ended the season with a record of twelve wins and two defeats.

Of these five, only Buckley can boast of having reached six feet. Finegan, Lutz, and Webber all miss the two yard mark by an inch, while Romano measures five feet, ten inches.

On the second team, Sam White and Homer Peabody, both lettermen, are two notches above six feet and Lee Bird is one inch over the mark. Johnny Rigby drops down to five, eleven, and Bobby James is a bare five feet, ten.

The team is far better offensively than defensively, being hampered in its back-board work by its lack of height. But it will be helped by the fact that the game is on the home floor, a good bit longer than Hangar Gym, on which the Tech quintet is used to playing.

The M.I.T. position is the exact reverse of the Crimson's as only one newcomer, Sanford Glick at forward, is slated to start. Tom Creamer, captain for the second year, and his mate at guard, Walter Farrell; Richmond Wilson, lanky center; and Howard Samuels at forward all took part in the intra-Cantabridgian struggle last year.

Freshmen Play

In a preliminary to the varsity game, the Freshman teams of the two schools will meet at 7:30 o'clock. The Yardlings are as yet completely untried, and not even Skip Stahley, their coach, knows how strong they will turn out.