Harvard's strong freshman hockey team has a chance to avenge its sole loss of the season when it takes on the Boston College freshmen today at 4 p.m. in Watson Rink.

Admission to the preliminary, which should be as close and exciting as the battle between the varsities in the evening, is free for undergraduates with a coupon book, $1.00 for others.

The Eaglets, who own a 5-3 pre-Christmas win over the Yardlings, enter the game with a 9-2 record, compared to Harvard's 6-1 slate. B.C.'s losses were a 5-1 fluke to a Brown goalie who made 54 saves and a defeat by the same score to powerful New Prep. The Prep school's victory came over the Christmas vacation, when several B.C. players, including the entire first line, were missing.

B.C.'s wins include two over B.U., 7-6 and 7-0, an overtime triumph against Dartmouth, 6-5, and romps over Yale, Princeton, and Northeastern, 7-2, 6-0, and 10-2.

Harvard has defeated Brown 12-4 and Princeton 7-3.

Coach Nat Harris will use the same lineup he sent against Princeton. Captain Jack Turco will center for Dick Delaney and Jim Baldassari on the first line, with Chris Gurry and Skip Freeman on defense. Baldassari, who leads the squad in assists, is from Choate; the other four played for Andover last winter.

Bob Farrell centers on the all-Canadian second line, with Andre Lemieux at right wing and Ron Mark, a teammate of Farrell's at Kitchener-Waterloo and current scoring leader with nine goals, on the left.

Roy Coopedge, from St. Paul's, joins Belmont Hill graduates George McManama and Ed Gallagher on the third line. Joe Tibbetts and Terry Flaman man the second defense.

The goalie is Pete Meehan, and "We'll need a good game from him if we're going to be in the game," says Coach Harris.

According to Harris, B.C.'s strength is all at the forwards. That strength includes two high-scoring lines which have excited much attention in the Boston press--one of local boys and one of "foreigners."

Minnesotan Tim Sheehy, with 21 points in 11 games, centers the first line. On his wings are John Snyder, son of a Clarkson professor, and Tim Smythe, from Lake Placid, N.Y. Kevin Ahearn (24 points) Charlie Toczylowski (22 points), and John Sullivan, all from the Boston area, from the second line.