Ruggers Lose At Easterns

Ambulances? Beer? Hashumakes? No prisoners? Only one sport combines the four, Harvard rugby. And at the Eastern Collegiate Rugby Football Union Championships this weekend at Princeton, though the four elements were present, the Harvard rugby football club, plagued by injuries, was eliminated in the second round by a more aggressive Princeton squad, 24-0.

In a hard-fought battle with the University of Maryland in the first round of the two-day tournament, the top-seeded ruggers came from behind to score an impressive 24-13 victory. But in the second round, feisty Princeton jumped ahead of Harvard on a penalty kick early in the first period and never looked back.

Three times the ambulances were called onto the pitch as Sabin Willet, Keith Cooper and Dave Sauve were injured. Willet was knocked unconscious in the early minutes of the game and awoke later in the ambulance. Sauve and Cooper both sustained leg injuries.