Cornell Soccer Team Invades Harvard Today

The soccer team will challenge its football brothers for high-scoring honors against Cornell in the second Ivy League contest for both teams at Soldiers Field this morning.

All week, Coach Bruce Munro has been working on installing the 5-3-2 system he has used the last 19 years, and the offense, at least, should be ready to go.

"We were just beginning to score with our four forward attack when we switched, and now that we've added another forward, we're scoring like mad," said Munro.

The "added" forward is sophomore Jaime Vargas, who, while not a starter normally, has seen a lot of action in the Crimson's first four games and added an assist against Columbia last Friday.

Vargas will team with Lutz Hoeppner at the inside positions, while Jim Saltonstall moves back to center forward. Saltonstall had trouble adjusting to the 4-3-3 style of play and should be more effective now that he is back at the position where he was first-team All-Ivy two years ago and second-team last year.

Joe Gould, Andy Kydes, and Ken Mallory remain on the halfback line, and Richie Hammond is in the goal.

Munro no longer has the problem of finding three healthy, competent fullbacks to fill his defense, but he is having almost as much trouble finding two. Tony Marks is set as the right fullback, but there's a gaping hole on the left.

Hilary Worthen and Warren Bowes, who started at the left and right spots at Columbia, are both injured. Karl Lunkenheimer, who was the regular left fullback all last year, has finally recovered from his pre-season sprained ankle, but is far from sharp after a three-week layoff.

Dave Wright, who looked good at right fullback before he was injured in the Williams game, will probably get the starting assignment at left fullback. Munro is also looking at converted forward Geoff Keppel, who made a good showing at fullback in the junior varsity game Wednesday.

Cornell surprised Harvard with a 3-1 upset at Ithaca last year, but the Big Red has been lifeless in its early outings this season. In addition to losing, 4-2, to Penn last week, Cornell has been shut out by Colgate, 4-0.

The Big Red will probably try to stop Harvard's scorers with a 3-3-4, a lineup which works well for Yale. It hasn't been too successful for the Ithacans so far, and if the Crimson's unsettled defense holds up moderately well, Harvard should post a 4-2 win.