Strong Princeton Squad To Face Quintet Tonight

The basketball team will have its chance to perpetrate the season's biggest upset when it meets Princeton at the I.A.B. tonight. More likely, however, it will gain some valuable experience in the fine art of losing gracefully and get to see a really good basketball team in the bargain.

Princeton has seven lettermen returning from the team that won the Ivy League championship last season, including the League's leading scorer Pete Campbell. They have lost only to Yale this year in nine games, and hold an almost insurmountable two game lead over the Elis with five games left to play.

Campbell, a 6 ft., 1 in. junior, currently ranks fourth among Ivy scorers with a 17 point average. While breaking the Princeton season scoring record last season he was voted to the All-Ivy first team. Just watching Campbell drive and shoot jump shots would make the evening worthwhile, but he is only a part of Coach Cappy Cappon's machine.

Kammerien Leads Scorers

Junior Al Kammerien is even edging out Campbell for the team scoring lead, and ranks third in the Ivy League. Sophomore whis Art Hyland teams with Campbell in the backcourt, and ranks 11th with his 14.7 point per game average. The fourth member of the Tigers' devastating quartet is captain Don Swan, a strong 6 ft., 3 in. forward.

As if Princeton weren't enough for one weekend the Crimson will play Penn here tomorow night. With four sophomores and All-Ivy forward Bob Mlkvy in the starting lineup the Quakers lost their first two games to Columbia and Cornell. Since then they have played as good basketball as can be expected from such a youthful squad, and hold down third place with a 5-4 record.

Besides Mlkvy, who ranked second behind Campbell last season, Penn starts sophomores Sid Amira, John Wideman, Dick Biborosch, and Bob Purdy.

Amira is a 6 ft., 2 in. guard who is averaging 11 points per game, and scored 39 in two games last week. Purdy is scoring at a rate of 10 points per game, and Wideman 9.8.

Though statistics indicate a rough weekend for the Crimson, its recent play gives some cause for hope. Gary Borchard vaulted from eighth to fifth place in the Ivy scoring standings last week, and Pete Kelley moved up two places to ninth.

In addition, Joe Deering is scoring on 52 per cent of his shots, Bob Bowditch and Bill Danner continue to contribute some excellent defensive work, and Denny Lynch broke loose for 18 points in the loss to Brown last week.

In fact, most of Harvard's statistics are quite impressive. The team might even have had an impressive won and lost record had it not dropped a few games on second half lapses.

But for the dreamers there is always the possibility that the Crimson will defeat Princeton and Penn twice each and Yale in its remaining games and thereby finish the season with an 3-6 record.