Meeting a strong team from Tufts, the University basketball five will play its first game of the season on the top floor of the Indoor Athletic Building at 8 o'clock this evening.

The Crimson team, which will be without the services of the veteran C. H. Hageman '33, who is attending the Army-Navy game and football dinner in New York, will have only two of last year's regulars in the starting lineup. Captain G. H. Pattison Jr. '32 and Joseph Rauh Jr. '32, will probably bear the greater part of the burden against the Tufts hoopmen. W. A. Huppuch '33, who is to start at right guard, saw considerable action in the later games last year and should do well in Hageman's regular position.