Dave Abbot slapped in a goal with less than half a minute remaining last night to climax a uphill fight and pull out a 4 to 3 win for the varsity hockey team over Brown at Providence. Tonight the team takes on powerful BC at the Arena at 9 p.m.

Brown jumped away to a quick load before the slim crowd of 1200 at the Providence Arena when first line pivot Casey whacked in a shot on the end of a three-man pass play at 26 seconds of the opening period.

The Crimson came back in the second period to take a temporary 2 to 1 lead. Scorers were Joe Kittredge (on a pass from fellow-sophomore Dave Anderson) and Bill Garrity, just a minute later.

Two Brown scores later in the same session set the stage for the Crimson's winning last-period rally. Anderson collected his second point of the night by going in alone to tally at 14:29, and a coulter-Huntington-Abbot play in the final seconds clinched the win.

The starting lineups: HARVARD (4)  BROWN (3) Yetman  g  Whiston Greeley  rd  Dowey Howe  ld  Menard D. Key  c  Casey Garrity  rw  Davidson Carman  lw  Malo

Harvard scoring: First period--none; second period--Kittredge (Anderson), 11:19; Garrity (D. Key), 12:19; third period--Anderson (unassisted), 14:29; Abbott (Huntington, Coulter), 19:39