Varsity Booters Battle Princeton Squad to 1-1 Tie

Ninety-eight minutes of as rugged soccer as Old Nassau has seen in many a moon resulted, in a 1 to 1 tie as Coach "Mac" MacDonald's Varsity booters and the Orange and Black from Princeton fought each other to a standstill last Saturday at Jungletown.

From the opening whistle till the end of the second overtime period neither team could establish a clear margin of superiority as the play ebbed from one end of the field to the other. The half found the count Knotted at 0 to 0 with both the Crimson and the Orange and Black guilty of missing several shots at point blank range.

Gates Scores for Tigers

Then in 17 minutes of the third quarter the Tigers went into the lead when Bill Gates, their outside left, banged in a cross-field pass from a position about three yards to left of the goal mouth.

But the Crimson came roaring back and five minutes later Phil Potter, the center forward, went through the two Nassau fullbacks, collided with their goalie, but slammed in the only Harvard score of the afternoon. This only served to precipitate the action, and as the time ran out both teams pressed harder for a score and somewhere during the course of last quarter or in the scoring play, the Princeton goalie suffered a broken nose.

By all odds the outstanding player on the field was Al Merck, who played the whole game for Harvard at the left fullback slot. His booming kicks and several great stops by Dick Harshman, the Crimson goalie, repeatedly saved the game.

The Starting lineup for Harvard was: Harshman, g.; Purinton,r.f.; Merck,l.f.; Seamans, r.h.; Ogden, c.h.; Mavor, l.h.; Smith, o.r.; Azcarraga, i.r,; Potter, c.f.; Blanco, r.f.; Dawson, l.c. As his substitutes on the defense, MacDonald used Forster, Carswell, Del Rio, and Louria while Chen and Lazarus played on the forward line.