The varsity team will get a chance to asses just how badly it has been hurt by graduation when it travels to Princeton this weekend for the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis League's fall tournament.

Number one player Frank Ripley and number six man Bob In man both graduated, and coach Jack Barn by is counting on sophomores to fill in for them.

There are actually six tournaments at Princeton this weekend. One will include the number one and two players from every school entered (the Ivies, plus Army and Navy). A second tournament will pair the third and fourth players from all ten schools, and a third includes the last two players on each six-man team.

There are also doubles tournaments for the first, second and third-ranked pairs from each school.

Juniors Dave Benjamin and Clive Kileff will probably go in the top singles tournament for Harvard. They also play doubles together, but they'll play in the number two doubles tournament.

Harvard's best doubles team--and third and fourth best singles players--is Chum Steels and Captain Dean Peckham, a pair of seniors who turned in big wins against unbeaten Princeton last year when Harvard bowed to the Tigers, 5-4.

Two sophomores, Dick Appleby and Brian Davis, will be tried out in the five and six positions. Nick Hoogs, also a sophomore, may fill in for Davis in the doubles.

The competition is good; Harvard's best chances for victories probably lie in the doubles with the experienced Peckham-Steele and Benjamin-Kileff teams, and in the second-flight singles tournament.

The players at the top are probably just a bit too good for Benjamin and Kileff. Princeton lost number-one man Herb Fitzgibbon, but Keith Jennings, now number one for the Tigers, has won two of two matches against Benjamin.

A Yale sophomore named Jack Waltz, one of the country's top 15 juniors last year, and Tom Gallinado of Cornell, a winner against Ripley in this spring's match, will be other top players. Perhaps the favorites, though, will be two Pennsylvania players, John Reese and Bailey Brown, who look ready to become stars as seniors after playing together for two years.