Harvard's basketball team has a chance--just a bare one--of interrupting the steady stream of E.I.L. defeats which have been pinned on them during this winter's campaign as they journey to New York to face a Columbia Lion which still has a mathematical possibility of tying the Dartmouth Indians for the League crown.

The Lions routed the Crimson in their Cambridge appearance, but that night Coach Mooney's boys flashed the best brand of shooting they have shown all year. During certain portions of the contest, they just couldn't miss from whatever angle they shot. The Feslermen will also be presenting a slightly different lineup tonight than the one which took the floor against the Lions before.

New Lineup

Sam White will be up in the front court with Charley Lutz, while Fred Heckel will be moved back to guard alongside of Captain Lupien. As usual, Homer Peabody will get the starting call at center. For the Blue and White, who are now sporting a new zone defense, Albie Meyers and Jack Naylor will be at the forward slots with big Vad Medvedeff at center. Captain Tom Macioce and Ed Anderson will be in the backcourt.

In the Cambridge meeting of the two squads, the Lious were not forced to reveal their new defense because the game never was close enough. The quick poison in their shots soon left the Fesler five trailing in their wake, and the game was not even close enough to satisfy Coach Osborne Cowles of Dartmouth, who scouted the contest. This time the Crimson are primed to make things tougher.

They almost crashed into the victory column Saturday night against the Pennsylvania Quakers, and the squad is in the best of spirits for the impending tilts with Yale and Penn. The Crimson need two wins in their remaining four games to keep them out of the League cellar.