Booters Draw First in Region, Wilmot Makes All-Star Squad

The New England Intercollegiate Soccer League has named Harvard as the first-place team in its university division and designated Crimson fullback Chris Wilmot a member of the League's All-New England squad.

Harvard freshmen coach Dana Getchell attended the meeting of the League, the oldest and largest soccer association in the country, at Springfield College on Sunday. Getchell, a former League secretary, accepted Harvard's first-place trophy, the third consecutive such award for the Crimson varsity.

Bob Munro, who coached the top-ranked Harvard squad, said yesterday he was surprised that Wilmot alone of all his players should have been picked as All-New England.

"The scarcity of Harvard men on the All-New England team seems strange at first," said Getchell yesterday. "But it's readily explained by the way in which the all-stars are selected."

Every League coach can vote after each of his season games for as many as six outstanding players--three from his own team, three from his opponent--whose performances rate as All-American in the coach's judgment. The New England League tabulates these votes to determine its all-star team each year, according to Getchell.

"Some coaches abuse this system," Getchell said. "They always mail in the names of the best players on their team whether or not the particular players had a very outstanding game. They even make little agreements with opposing coaches so that after a game they all mail in certain players' names.

"Bob Munro is too honest to do this. He only mails in a name to the all-star competition if the player had a really outstanding game." Getchell added. "So Harvard players don't rack up as many votes, and don't get picked so often to the All-New England teams."