Meet time: 2:30 p.m.
On Nov. 5, an undefeated Harvard football team - with a sensational victory over Dartmouth already on its record - went to Princeton to meet a solid, but not overpowering, Tiger football team. The Crimson lost that game, 18-14.
Today a Harvard wrestling team, undefeated in the Ivy League - and with a sensational victory over wrestling's "Dartmouth," Cornell, already on its record -- meets a solid, but not overpowering, Princeton wrestling squad.
The parallels are obvious, and this afternoon the most solid Crimson wrestling team to appear since the Ivy League began will try to prove that history doesn't always repeat itself.
It will try to take all the marbles in this hot Ivy League race against a tough, muscular Tiger squad which has been keying on this game as much as it has.
To meet the Crimson challenge, the Tigers will probably resort to a juggled line-up just as the Crimson has done all season. As of this morning, no one can really guess what both line-ups will be when the teams take to the mats this afternoon.
All that is sure is that both teams will present what they consider their strongest and most strategic line-ups. For Harvard, that means that its top wrestlers-Howie Henjyoji, Danny Naylor, Ed Franquemont, Howie Freedman - will all be present but no one knows just where.
For Princeton that means that Paul Arnow (152) will wrestle, as will Bruce Rosenberg (137), Geoff Lipsey (130), and Julian McPhillips (191-hvy.).
Today's confrontation - unlike the Harvard-Princeton football game - will be played in Cambridge. The wrestling team has been drawing increasingly larger crowds this year as the only Crimson squad (besides squash) looking for an Ivy championship. If the team erases the last major threat today, it will have it.
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