Soccer Team Wins Ivy Championship

Harvard's varsity soccer team jumped to a quick 2-0 lead against Brown on Saturday, completely dominated the third quanta, and held off several last-minute Bruin threats to clinch the Ivy championship with a 2-1 victory on the Business School field.

Brown, ranked eighth in the nation and now 9-2-1 for the season, made several defensive lapses, and only the fine efforts of goalie John Sanzo kept the Bruins in the game. On offense, Dick Lay frequently outmaneuvered the Crimson defense and created a number of dangerous situations, but the remainder of the Brown attack was ineffective.

Rather than the muddiness of the field, the wind was a much more vital factor in the game. The Crimson developed a coordinated attack in the first and third periods with the wind and played just well enough to win in the last quarter.

Brown took the opening momentum and kept the ball at the Harvard end of the field. The quality of the two nationally ranked teams was most evident in the opening minutes as both squads concentrated on a short passing attack and a close checking defense.

Bounding Ball

With only a few minutes gone in the game, halfback Norrie Harrower cleared a direct kick up to Phil Kydes who centered the gall to Charlie Thomas about 10 yards out from the goal. Thomas kicked the bounding ball into a Brown defender and then fired his own quick rebound into the net.

Moments later, Harrower tossed a long throw-in to Kydes on the right wing. The junior forward carried the ball straight in and fired a hard drive into the upper corner.

It appeared to be Brown's strategy to guard against passes to Thomas and Solomon Games and let Kydes have shooting room. Kydes took advantage of the opportunity as he fired two hard shots just past the post and had one drive just tipped aside by an outstanding Sanzo lunge.

The Crimson's second goal broke Brown's momentum, and the rest of the half was played at a much slower pace

Bruin forward Lay put Brown back in the game just before the half as he split the defense with his speed and footwork, Lay pulled Meyers to him and then passed to teammate Dick McEvoy for an easy goal.

Complete Control

Coach Cliff Stevenson tried to fire up his squad at the half, but Harvard completely controlled the third period of play, The Crimson kept the ball in its offensive half of the field for the entire 22 minutes. It was by far Harvard's best coordinated period of the season. Halfback Harrower and John Gordon in particular continually kept the Brown defense from clearing the ball.

In the final period the Crimson defensive halfback line sagged but the play stayed out of Harvard's penalty area until the final three minutes. Sanzo made key saves on individual breakaways from midfield by both Gomez and Thomas.

But in the closing moments, Brown had four corner kicks and goalie Bill Myers had to make several close saves. Brown's last minute surge left Bruin fans optimistic about a rematch in the NCAA'S.