HANOVER, N.H., Oct. 26--The Crimson soccer team, despite superior play throughout most of the game, dropped its fifth straight contest here today to inspired Dartmouth, 2 to 0. The Harvard freshman team won its first contest against an undefeated Indian squad, 1 to 0.

The Crimson played near-perfect ball defensively for the first three periods, and dominated offensive play throughout. The line, however, was still unsharp in its play making and too slow to get away many shots. Dartmouth's goalie, highly-rated Randy Malin, was forced to expend an effort only once in the game.

A defensive lapse on two missed tackles let Dartmouth's outside right Jim Kennedy get to a lose ball. Kennedy fired a perfect shot to the left hand corner which completely beat goalie Finkelstein for the winning margin. Inside right Bob Googins rubbed salt in the wound with a final goal 15 seconds before the game ended.

Hedreen Scores for '60

Center forward John Hedreen won the first game of the season for the freshmen, after two losses, on a clean, hard shot which the Dartmouth goalie never saw. The Indians, unaware of impending trouble, showed little of the talent which had won both of their games earlier this year.