After trudging through a listless first half yesterday, the Harvard freshman soccer squad came alive in the last two periods to slip past rugged Andover 3-1.

Dominating first quarter play, Andover kept the Yardlings on defense for most of the period with a tough, bruising style of play. Andover was penalized repeatedly for personal fouls.

The Crimson scored first after five minutes in the second quarter as captain Scott Robertson booted in a lead pass from forward Steve Wimberly. Andover tied it up six minutes later on a bouncing shot past Harvard goalie Jay Breese, who was screened out of the play.

In the third quarter Harvard took chargo as the speedy halfback line started to out-scramble Andover. Accurate passed to forwards gave the Yardlings several shots at the goal, but with the wind against them they were unable to score.

The wind changed in the final quarter and Harvard walked all over exhausted Andover. Forward Jim Vargas kicked his sixteenth goal of the season unassisted, and Robertson tallied his second of the game on a pass from Vargas.

"The team was tired from hour exams and its mind was on this Saturday's match with undefeated Princeton," explained Coach Dana Getchell.

In a match with the undefeated University of Connecticut freshmen Saturday. Harvard put all its talent together at one time to come through with a 7-1 victory.