No mailer how many letterman graduate, how few outstanding players there were on a Freshman team, or how many booters go on probation, Varsity Coach Jack Carr always seems to have one of New England's finest soccer teams, Even when they are outclassed in skill, the players have an extra fight that often pulls them through to victory.

Last year John Dorman captained a Crimson eleven that repeatedly defeated foes rated stronger on paper, Williams, then Princeton, then Amherst. Already this fall a squad rocked by graduation losses has beaten a favored Amherst team.

The Varsity soccer teams exhibit fighting spirit for 88, minutes; they rarely let down during a game, and the chief reason is that they are fighting for their sport.

Every Sophomore class knows that in its Senior year there may not be any official soccer team, because Harvard may no longer be able to afford it. And for this reason it becomes a point of honor not to let the team down, not to let Jack Carr down, and not to let the H. A. A. down. For it was only very recently that the H. A. A. went to bat to save soccer from the axe of University Hall.

Good or bad football teams, highly or only averagely publicized football teams, fighting football teams or "take it lying down" teams, Harvard can always rely on one of the country's hardest trying and winning soccer teams.

Attention to Younger Players

Success that has come to Coach Carr's elevens in recent years is in large part also attribute to his system of developing younger players. When a small coaching staff is handling a large squad, a coach can choose one of two methods; he can either let his younger men go and concentrate on bringing along those whom he already knows as better than average or average, or risking immediate victory, he can build for the future by devoting time and effort to the younger men. Coach Carr has chosen this second method, and six present first team players bear witness to its efficaciousness.

Goalie Put Williams, a Sophomore, heads this list. A capable performer but temperamental, Williams has by careful attention from Coaches Carr and MacDonald, been developed into a potential star performer. In his two starts of the season to date he has been unscored on. Two other notable cases among the Sophomores are those of Dick Lewis and Bernard Jacobson. When practice opened two and a half weeks age, both men were far behind many other players in knowledge of strategy and execution of tactics, but the coach has already had his patience rewarded by the speed and aggressiveness of Lewis and the steadiness of Jacobson in the Amherst game. Before the end of the season both men may be in the actual starting lineup.

Among other Varsity men, whose successful development has resulted largely from Carr's spotting their innate ability early and working to bring it out, are halfback Bob Scott and right outside Don Sleeper, both Juniors, and halfback Austin Scott, a Senior and former Junior Varsity player.

It is perhaps Austy who most obviously bears out one of the guiding principles of the soccer team's continued success: "If you're not a Senior and you've got fight and a desire to learn, the Coach will go more than half way to have you ready for Varsity play when you are a Senior, if not before."