Harvard's basketball team will open its second season as a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate League when it plays Pennsylvania, the defending champion, at Philadelphia on Saturday, December 15.

Except for a Harvard-Princeton game at Cambridge Wednesday, December 19, and a Harvard-Yale contest on March 16, the 42 game program will be played off between the end of the Christmas holidays and the general closing time March 9. The league again will be composed of seven teams, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell, and Pennsylvania.

The schedule: December 15, Harvard at Pennsylvania; December 19, Princeton at Harvard; January 14, Pennsylvania at Harvard; January 19, Cornell at Harvard; February 6, Harvard at Princeton; February 16, Columbia at Harvard; February 22, Harvard at Cornell; February 27, Harvard at Yale; March 2, Harvard at Dartmouth; March 6, Harvard at Columbia; March 16, Yale at Harvard.