Playing the final games of the season, the University and Freshman basketball teams will face Yale tonight; at 7 o'clock in the Freshman Athletic Building, the 1930 team, and at 8.30 o'clock in the Hemenway Gymnasium, the University will play their objective games.
Coach Wachter will start a team which he hopes will gain a third victory over the Elis in as many years. His men enter the game about evenly matched with the Yale players; each has lost the more important games of the season, and the comparative scores give neither a decided advantage. Both have been defeated by Dartmouth and Columbia.
Crimson Defense Strengthened
The change made in the defense before the Springfild game has strengthened the power of the Crimson. In order to cope with the shots of Simmons, Yale center and high scorer in the Intercollegiate League, tight defensive work will be necessary. Although his team has won only one league game. Simmons has been a player greatly feared by his opponents. J.N. Barbee '28 moved to center from a guard position, will have a large assignment to get the jump on him.
J.D. Leekley '27, a veteran of two former Yale games, will share with A.W. Slocum '28 the task of gaining a lead for Harvard.
Kenneth Dorn '27, whose ankle was injured in the game with the University of Maine, will probably get in the clash, at least long enough to win his letter.
Captain Malick, Leekley, Dorn, and Warrell Coombs '27 are playing their last game of basketball for the Crimson.
Captain Carmody has returned to the lineup after an absence due to injuries.
The officials of this game will be George Hoyt and E.M. Kelleher of the Eastern Massachusetts Board of Officials.
The records of past games give Yale a slight advantage in the contest between the two 1930 teams. The visiting team has lost two games, both by very close scores; it defeated Princeton by the count of 25 to 6. The Harvard Freshmen have improved greatly in the last three games, beating Brown by one point, but losing to Dartmouth at Hanover by a large score. According to Coach A.W. Samborski '25, they found their bearings in the latter game, and in losing were weldede into a unit, playing fast and coordinated basketball.
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