'52 Lacrosse Squad Meets Eli Saturday

On the fate of the freshman lacrosse team against Yale on the Business School field tomorrow hangs the success or failure of the Crimson season. The game is scheduled for 3 p.m.

The record, seven wins out of ten, means little to the team with the Yale game still in the balance. Furthermore, the record is a poor indication of the team's chances in the game with the Eli. The record is good, but the squad's chances are only fair.

The record is deceiving in that many of the teams the Crimson has thrashed decisively are very weak. Lawrence Academy, Tufts, and Middlesex had virtually no power with which to confront the only average Crimson squad. In the games which were really indications of the team's ability, such as the Dartmouth, Andover, and Exeter contests, the squad has shown itself to be hard fighting, but quite unsteady and inconsistent.

Andover was the only one of these three that lost. In these tough games the squad battled but failed on the finer points of play-making and team work, while in the contests where it had a clear victory from the start, it has tended to stoop to playing the opponent's type of game.

So the freshmen team that faces Yale tomorrow will be a potentiality strong outfit that has not quite developed all the way in either physical condition or team work.

Coach Dick Meryman will start: at attack, Ned Yost, Bob Baldwin, and Lou Schaffer; at midfield, Rip Lynch, Al Sawyer, and Pete Brooke; at defense, Captain Bill Spence, Jay Byrne, and Godfrey Birckhead; and at goalie, Dick Thomas.