It's becoming traditional for Harvard squash teams to shut out Cornell; for three years the Crimson has romped past the Ithacans 9-0. Last year's Harvard players all won their matches from Cornell in three straight games, and for a squash team, that's the equivalent of a no-hit game.

But Cornell improved after the Harvard match; under new head coach Ed Moylan, the Big Red put on a strong finish, beat Yale 5-4, and finished fourth in the Ivy League, their best record in years.

Cornell has the majority of its front liners back again, and the score may be closer than it has been in past years. But Harvard is almost a cincn to win today's match.

The Crimson opened its season Saturday with a 7-2 win over McGill's Canadian champions, even though number three players Bill Morris stayed behind to play in a tournament.

Some scores in that match were impressive; Al Terrell won the number four match from David McNeil, 15-6, 15-2. 15-3. Denny Adams, (number three), Todd Wilkinson (six), Denny Lewis (eight) and Craig Stapleton (nine) also turned in straight-game wins, and Terry Robinson (two) won 3-1.

Robinson turned in an even more impressive performance the next day while the team was losing an unofficial 5-4 match to Montreal's Atwater Club. Harvard's second player best Ross Adair, one of Canada's top-ranked amateurs, 15-13, 17-16, 15-13. Last year Adair played number one for McGill, and was one of just three collegiate players to win a game from Harvard's national collegiate champ, Vic Neiderhoffer.

While Robinson was winning, number one player Romer Holleran dropped a 15-13, 15-13, 15-13 match to Canada's amateur champion. Smith Chapman. That kind of score shows that Holleran is on the verge of becoming a top-flight squash player; Chapman can hold his own with any amateur on the continent.

For today's match, at Cornell, Steve Simpson will move in ahead of Stapleton at nine; Morris will miss the match with a cold.