The Holy Cross track team, bound together with yards of adhesive tape, limps into the Stadium for its first meet of the season this afternoon.

The meet with Harvard could be an experience that will add some aches and pains to those already besetting the Crusaders. This Crimson team isn't one that a healthy team can face with confidence, much less a Holy Cross squad with many of its stars injured.

Several of the Crusader middle-distance stars who make up one of the best mile relay teams in the East are out with injuries. Loren Maloney, Bob Credle, Bill Hack, and Bob Miller all could be on the beach.

There should still be several exciting events. In the broad jump, the Crimson's Chris Ohiri, Aggrey Awori, and Chris Pardee go against Dick Maiberger, IC4A champ a year ago. High jumper Kevin O'Brien has done 6 ft. 8 in. and should give Pardee some competition in his speciality.

O'Brien will also compete in the hurdies against Tony Lynch and Jack Spitzberg, and in the triple jump against Ohiri.

After that the Crusaders can probably count on wins in the quarter mile and mile relay, and possibly in the 880. That should be about it as the Crimson, rebounding from its surprising three-point loss to Army last weekend, tries to get back on the winning track.