Rugby Team to Face Toronto in Stadium

The Crimson Rugby Club will face the Toronto Nomads tomorrow in the Soldiers Field football stadium, when it will try to provide a successful finale to its rather mediocre season.

The team, which has finally attained a high degree of rugby sense, will have to be at its best to come out on top at the end of the afternoon.

Toronto is a relatively unknown quantity, more so than any other Crimson opponent this year, but on the basis of its 5-1-1 record, it must be considered well above average. Club president Bill Morse last night felt that the Nomads would probably be at least as tough as Dartmouth, which earlier trounced the Crimson, 9 to 3, and has since gone on to win the Eastern Rugby Union title.

The Crimson has not faced any Toronto team in recent years so it is hard to judge the exact strength of tomorrow's opposition. Whatever its intrinsic power, the team's effectiveness will be diminished by a twelve-hour bus ride.

The Crimson, fresh from a good night's sleep, will be able to utilize the experience it has acquired throughout the spring in compiling its own 5-3 record. Judging from last week's Yale game, the three quarters' passing, and running has tightened enough to produce one of the most potent backfields in the league, while the forwards, always strong and aggresive in the lineouts, have become adept at heeling the ball to the backs. If the Crimson can avoid injuries during the contest, it could provide some extremely tough opposition for the Nomads.

To prepare for playing on a field 25 yards smaller than regulation width, the club spent this week working on scissors movements in the three quarters. These consist of the wing cutting back behind his center to take the pass, rather than going to the outside and heading for the sidelines, and will hopefully enable the team to make the most of its speed.