Ivy Soccer: Bruins Top List

The people down at Brown, it seems, spend most of their time hoping, praying, dreaming for a championship football team. But judging from the squad's start this season, those wishful-thinking folk in Providence will just have to be content with another championship soccer team.

The undefeated Bruins are currently on top of the New England soccer polls, ranked sixth in the nation and are unanimous choices to take the Ivy League championship crown for a second year in a row.

BROWN: Easily the best team in the league. Forwards Jose Violente (who also kicks field goals for the football team) and sophomore sensation Fred Pereira, both natives of Portugal, make the offense awesome, while goalkeeper Mike Hampden of Buyana is rated by many as the best in the country.

PENN: The Quakers boast a pair of forwards that have already been selected to the Olympic team, John Borozzi and sophomore Santiago Formoso (who scored twenty goals in nine games as a freshman). The loss of three fullbacks, however, from last year's team takes them out of the running with Brown.

CORNELL: All-Ivy goalie Jon Ross assures a strong defensive squad this year, but the Big Red will have to rely on unknown transfers such as Dave Sarachen and Abdullah Jezaj to pick up the offense.

HARVARD: Coach George Ford thinks his squad will surprise a lot of people this season, and he's probably right. The spirited Crimson could give Cornell a run for theer money.

YALE: Hubert Voglesinger directed the Elis to the NCAAs last year, but he's gone along with the Elis' top scorer, and so are Yale's hopes for a big season.

PRINCETON: The Tigers are strong again in goal, returning Paul Helfenstein. A pair of All-Ivy selections, forward Jim Hansen and back Steve Tobolsky, also return from last season's squad giving the club some balance.

DARTMOUTH: The Big Green's hopes rest on whether leading Ivy scorer Frank Gallo can come back from a broken leg he suffered this summer. Otherwise the team lacks any pizazz and should finish low in the standings.

COLUMBIA: The Lions are starting seven sophomores. What can you say? Another team in the great tradition of Columbia's athletic program.