In an awesome display of power, Harvard's varsity squash team jolted M.I.T., 9-0, yesterday afternoon in Hemenway Gym.

Only one Harvard player, Michel Scheinmann, dropped a game. After winning his first two games, 15-7 and 15-12, Scheinmann, playing number six, faltered and lost the third game, 15-10. But he recovered quickly and with cool precision set down his opponent, 15-9, in the fourth game for the win.

Harvard's other players made short work of their matches. Anil Nayar, number one, put on a display of three-wall drop shots and deep power drives that dizzied his opponent.

Larry Terrell, playing behind Nayar, at first seemed ruffled by the white tennis hat that Alan Melanson, his opponent, wore. Melanson winced and sighed and removed the hat six times during the match to run his fingers through his hair, but Terrell steadied his shots and won easily, 15-10, 15-11, 15-5.

Jose Gonzalez--a bit overweight from his golfing vacation in Puerto Rico--was lethal in the third position while left-handed, deft-handed captain Rick Sterne, playing four, bewildered his opponent with his spinning shots and won, 15-8, 15-6, 15-4.

John Whitbeck, Harvard's fifth man, fighting off a case of flu, played to a 15-5, 15-12, 17-14 victory. Fritz Hobbs, Fernando Gonzalez, and Peter Abrams also won in straight games.

Harvard faces Penn on Saturday. "If any team can beat us this year," coach Jack Barnaby said after yesterday's match, "it will be Penn." It certainly wasn't M.I.T.