Booters, All Aboard for Princeton

Princeton has a reputation for, among other things, good soccer teams. This year's is apparently no exception. With the loss of seven regulars from its 1936 champions, the Tigers have already three wins to their credit as against a single loss, and that only by a 4-3 score in their opener with the Crescent A. C., which numbered the New Jersey boys as its twenty-third consecutive victims.

Crimson a Mystery Outfit

The fact is that Coach Jack Carr's Crimson Varsity will have its work cut out for it Saturday morning. Bill Logan's 1936 Jayvees have come along fast, while, an unusual case, Harvard's latest team is still somewhat of a mystery, both as to lineup and scoring ability on any given day.

As for the lineup, injury jinx makes the principal problem. Of three veteran and stellar fullbacks, Coach Carr never knows for certain if any of them will be able to play until about the day of a game. Captain Dick Powell is permanently benched with a trick knee; Joe Bradley has a thigh ailment which usually allows him to play at least part of a game, recurs, and keeps him out for two or three days. Ted Robie injured his spleen in a headon tackle in the Dartmouth game and finds his return to action pretty much in the air.

Search for a Winning Combination

Moving from fullbacks to halfbacks, the element of uncertainty comes in with the question whether anybody is going to improve sufficiently to take the place of Carr's regular starting trio, which is good but never all-American. In the forward line, there is still a search for the winning combination. Latest reports seemed to be that Carr had it in the Dartmouth and Tufts games, but Princeton may mean another story.

To date the Crimson eleven has won two, tied one, and lost one. In each game there were moments of effective play set off by long periods of mediocrity. Because Crimson soccer teams are noted for their driving spirit and will to make scoring breaks, chances are that Coach Carr would win more than he lost if he fielded the second Freshmen. But unless the booters really go to town against Princeton this week his team will go into the Yale game next month, even as it is now, a mystery aggregation.