Soccermen Defeat Brown In Final Period, 2 to 1

Still in the running after yesterday's narrow win over Brown, Harvard has one chance for supremacy in the Ivy soccer league, which depends, ironically, on Yale. Should the indifferent Bulldog strength galvanize today in a victory against first-place Princeton, and then fall gracefully apart next week, Harvard will win a race they came close-to losing at Brown.

Harvard got off to a flying start in the first minutes of the opening quarter, passing through the sluggish Brown defence in what looked like a repeat of the Princeton game, when the only goal was scored soon after the kickoff.

But Brown quickly found footing on their moist, small field. They pulled back the center halfback to play between their fullbacks in a three-back defence which loaded their goal area, and forced the Crimson to shoot long shots which their goalie could handle easily.

The second and third scoreless quarters saw Brown, realizing that Harvard had not scored, deciding they might score on Princeton's conqueror after all. Play shifted up and down the field, often halted by whistles penalizing Brown's rather bearish quality of soccer.

Harvard's first quarter spurt of enthusiasm dwindled to a tired trickle as the final quarter got under way, with both teams scoreless. Forward line plays broke as Brown's fullbacks and halfbacks kicked long, looping passes with the wind to their now hungry line.

A shot from Brown's left wing slipped out of goalie Tom Bagnoli's hands and was put in by another Brown forward.

With ten minutes and an incensed Brown team remaining in the game, Harvard picked up where they had left off in the first quarter. Right wing Ken McIntosh headed a ball across the Brown cage to left inside Tom Bernheim, who deflected it by the large Bruin goal-tender.

Brown's gallant spirit snapped. The left fullback chased behind McIntosh towards his own goal, and watched McIntosh score the winning goal past Brown's unprotected, unhappy goalie. Time ran out shortly.