Many of the substitutes on the bench were members of the group that criticized Gomez. Harvard has yet to win a game by more than two goals, and substitutes have played very little.

Gomez feels substitution should be made according to the momentum of the play. "If a guy is playing well, he shouldn't be pulled," Gomez said. "To substitute for only five or ten minutes is not good because the player never really gets to show what he can do."

Munro has been caught in the middle of the substitution argument. "I know that on a collegiate team if I play only 11 players I'll eventually have only 11 guys on the team. But you can score two or three times in two minutes, and we just haven't had big leads this year."

The solution suggested by Gomez is to preplan substitutions by quarters according to each player's desires. "If two guys at the same position get together and decide what periods they would like to play, then the coach will have less painful decisions to make."

The substitution problem does not appear to be settled yet. Harvard has close matches with Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton, and Brown in the next four weeks. Added to this situation is the fact that the 4-4-2 system is designed to win a low-scoring game. The Crimson cannot expect to build up large half-time advantages.

But the difference in the team now is that players have the opportunity to present their arguments freely off the field rather than in the play of the game.