Strong Yardling Quintet Should Crush Dartmouth

The freshman basketball squad, which has won 80 per cent of its games and compiled a 12-3 mark, will be shooting for extra 1.25 per cent tonight when meet meet Dartmouth at Hanover. In their last encounter the Yardlings smashed the Indians 89.50 and Coach Harrington thinks that tonight's results will be similar.

Dartmouth should not be discounted, though. The Pea Green defeated the strong Boston College five that trounced the Crimson freshmen 115-90. Also Jim Bailey, one of Harvard's best rebounders and shooters, is out with a dislocated elbow.

Last Saturday at the LAB, the freshman fought off a scrappy Eli squad and eked out a 78.79 victory over Yale. Yale had the game's high scorer with 27, but Chris Gallaghor with 22 and Garth Royer, with 17, were right behind him. Two other players who helped the Crimson considerably were center Dan Martell, with 13 points, and guard Eric Gustafson, with 12. The margin of victory, though, was not the shooting, but the excellent teamwork the Yardlings displayed throughout the contest.

This year's team has proven itself to be of the same caliber as the Keith Sedlacek - Barry Williams freshman squad of 1962. This team has an equally good record and just as much varsity potential.

Three members of this Yardling quintet will probably start next year. Two of the three could be forwards Barth Royer and Chris Gallaghor. Royer leads the freshmen with a 15.7 scoring average and has looped as many as 33 points in a game. One tenth of a point below Royer's average, at 15.6, is Gallaghor, whose hottest night produced 28 points.

Another player who could make it as a sophomore is center Paul Waickowski, who at 6.9 has the height that Harvard needs to do well in the Ivy League. Although Eric Gustafson has been injured twice this year and has not played a great deal, he has shown amazing ballhandling ability in practice, and could work in at guard on next year's varsity five.