The University basketball season opens tonight with a game against Northeastern at Bemenway Gymnasium. There are but two Harvard veterans returning, the other three positions being filled by sophomores.

This will be the third game of the season for the 'Huskies, which will give them somewhat of an advantage, due to the inexperience of the Harvard tem. The game will be the third contest ever played between Harvard and Northeastern, so far the Crimson having won both. In 1921-22 Harvard defeated Northeastern 41-22, while a year ago the score was 33-29.

Tonight's lineup for the Harvard team will contain not a single player who started the 1928 season. The three sophomores on the team. Upton, Farrell, and Rex replace Barbee, Rarper, and Green, of last year's five. Several men from the football squad, who were expected, have failed to turn up, so that there is an unusual amount of inexperienced material in tonight's contest. Captain O'Connell and Wenner are the veterans, the former a letterman and a senior while the latter, a junior, was a regniar at times during last season but failed to hold the position. Coach E.A. Wachter was expected to choose M.E. Pierce '31 for center but has selected Upton, a second squad football player this past fall and a player who did not make the freshman quintet last year because of his height.