NEW HAVEN, Conn.--The Yale track man, perennially subordinate to his swimming brother, is a cocky fellow today. He is certain the Elis will win the IC4-A championship tomorrow night and there are many who will agree with him.

He may be bitterly disappointed about 11:30 tomorrow night, but as he went through his last workout on the Coxe Cage cinders yesterday, Yale's first indoor track title since 1933 looked very much his.

Track experts have had to admit that the Elis' confidence may be justified. With the championship meet scheduled for tomorrow night, there is only one team which may keep the prized trophy away from Yale--Manhattan College.

Manhattan has won the IC4-A three years in a row. Without injuries, it would be an overwhelming favorite tomorrow. But it has lost the partial services this season of two of today's track aces, and Jasper Coach George Eastment has pessimistically said that Yale will win tomorrow with only 27 points.

The Elis will go to New York with a pair of huge weight throwers; two excellent pole vaulters; and a host of strong middle distance men. If all of these men can score the points Coach Bob Gigengack thinks they should, the Blue swimming team's winning streak will have to be subordinated.

Yale Strategy

Strategy for Yale works this way. Apeman Stu Thomson and his teammate Tom Henderson are being counted on to score heavily in the shot and weight threw; Bill Donegan and Harry Work, in the pole vault; Mike Stanley and Jack Meader in the 1,000 yard run; Joe Albanese and Ross Price, in the 600 yard run; and whomever Gigengack picks in the two-mile relay.

Manhattan, with three of the best sprinters in collegiate history, Lindy Remigino, Jack O'Connell, and Joe Schatzle as well as weight man Steve Dillon, all graduated, looked much weaker at the start of this year. But it still had Vern Dixon, Lou Jones, Charlie Pratt, and many other veterans to help fill the gap.

Early in the season, however, Eastment reported that Dixon, one of the nation's top quarter milers and sprinters, might never run again because of a leg injury. Dixon has improved though, but only to the extent that he can run on the mile relay. Pratt, a husky 6-foot-three hurdler, and defending broad jump champ, has been out with a pulled muscle, although there is hope that he may compete tomorrow. If he does, he should take the hurdles, and place in the jump.

Eastment should get very strong performances even so from Jones in the 600; Frank Gaffney in the high jump; Bill St. Clair in the milo; Lon Moore in the broad jump; and both his excellent relays.

In addition, the entries of outstanding men from other schools will probably cut more from Yale's score than Manhattan's.

Al Thompson of Columbia, Paul Raudenbush of Penn, Marty Engel of N.Y.U. all are favorites in the shot, 1,000, and weight throw--events in which Yale is hoping to score heavily.

But the Yale track man knows his shortcomings. He knows that Price will probably have to upset Jones; the two-mile relay to beat a favored Syracuse, but he is still cocky today, and probably will be until tomorrow night about 11:30.