Varsity Soccer Players Choose Dick Hammond '66 Season Chief

Richard E. Hammond, junior goalie and two-year letter winner from Leverett House and Syracuse, N.Y., was elected captain of the 1966 Harvard soccer team yesterday.

Hammond was second-string goalie behind Nat Bowditch this fall, though he saw action in six of the seven games at the Crimson's injury-confused goalie position. In his only full games in the nets. Hammond shut out Princeton, and not counting two penalty kicks, he allowed one goal in his five other appearances.

In the quarters he played at Penn and Brown, the only times he faced strong attacks, Hammond was impressive. He is a quick, wide-ranging goalie who takes complete charge of the penalty area and works well with his fullbacks.

Two injuries considerably cut down Hammond's playing time this fall, and Bowditch, too, was side-lined much of the season. At Cornell Hammond dislocated the little finger on each hand in a scramble for a loose ball, and a month later he was stunned when a Brown forward kicked him in the head as he smothered a ball on the ground.

Hammond will lead a 1966 squad that will boast 13 returning lettermen.

Starting center forward Jim Saltonstall and outsides Charlie Njoku and Dudley Blodget will all be back next fall, and should be joined on the line by the sophomore tandem of Bill Schaefer and Lutz Hoeppner that worked as relief insides this year.

The top three Crimson fullbacks, Tony Marks, Karl Lunkenheimer, and Alex Patton, will all return. Graduation will weaken the team only on the halfback line, but sophomore Joe Gould and junior Ken Mallory both lettered as reserves and should step up to the first strong with two-year letterman Andy Kydes.