The lacrosse team will try to show the home crowd today that Saturday's performance at Cornell was no fluke -- that the squad is capable of playing a solid, heads-up game.

Against Brown this afternoon at Cumnock Field, however, Coach Bruce Munro's stickmen will be facing a team that is itself out to prove something. The Bruins, perennially strong in lacrosse and 14-5 conquerors of the Crimson last year, were stunned, 9-3, by Princeton last weekend, and will be out to show that they are still to be reckoned with as an Ivy League power.

But Brown will have to contain a highly-improved Harvard team if it is to take out its hostilities today. And the indications are that the Bruins just might not be able to stop Harvard's high-powered midfield of Marty Cain, Alan Timberlake, and Jim Kilkowski, who played so well Saturday against Cornell.

Two All-Americans

The visitors from Providence had the fifth best lacrosse team in the country last year, but troubles at goalie and attack have turned them into a less formidable squad this season. They do have two 1966 all-Americans at midfield in co-captains George Armiger and Howie Zeskind, and the defense boasts three lettermen from last spring's New England championship outfit.

Minding the nets, however, are two inexperienced sophomores, Mike McMahon and Roger Bolletin, neither of whom has shown so far that he is able to come close to the play of last year's great goaltender, Pick Alter. Should the Crimson be able to mount as strong an attack as they did last weekend, in the 10-8 loss to Cornell, the cream of the Ivies, they just might snap their two-season league losing streak this afternoon.