The team with the orange arm bands today will be Penn. There were a lot of rumblings when Penn football players realized that they were to be in Cambridge on Halloween. When four of them quit the squad two weeks ago, the three blacks denied that there had been racial conflicts. They did not deny, however, that they had quit so that they could stay in Philly on Halloween. Those who are still on the team reportedly came reluctantly.

But they have decided to make the best of Halloween in Cambridge. Their game bags contain Halloween costumes, one for each player. They ran into a little trouble at Logan, though, when FBI agents arrived with dogs to scent shaving cream. They reportedly made quite a haul. A closer investigation of the costumes followed, leading to the discovery of one Peter Pan, one Captain Hook, and 40 Tinker Belles. One of the Quakers apparently intended to masquerade as a football player.

To guide the Penn men around Cambridge's best trick or treat neighborhoods, Harvard will assign one of its players to each of the visitors as a big brother. The Crimson checked out Halloween costumes through Jimmy Cunniff yesterday; Rod Foster picked Superboy, Tom Miller got Hopalong Cassidy, and Gary Farneti selected Mighty Joe Young.

With such a big night ahead, it will be hard for anyone to get up for the game. Harvard and Penn have two Ivy victories between them. Penn had the minimal satisfaction of beating Brown, everyone's favorite punching bag. The Crimson got dumped by Columbia. The New York Times won't be double teaming this one.

But who am I to be cynical? I'm supposed to pick a winner. Well, Cornell beat the Quakers by one point, and Harvard edged Cornell by three points. That comes to four, plus half of the time left after Szaro's field goal, equals eight. That's the margin of victory for Harvard, though it may have to be a comeback effort. This won't be the most memorable game of your life. The Crimson, 24-16.

CORNELL-COLUMBIA: Marinaro's been sort of stacked up for two weekends now, but apparently hourlies in the hotel administration course come in the middle of October. Today he should have a great chance to take out his frustration on the Lions. On the other hand, Rick Furbush is injured, the game is in New York, and Cornell could only put together a 10-3 win over Columbia's excuse for a team last fall. Even Androcles couldn't handle this one. Lions, 31-21.

PRINCETON-BROWN: Yawn. If you're sweet sixteen now, you weren't even one when Brown last beat the Tigers. Old Nassau has hardly been a powerhouse this fall, but when the Bruins lose to Colgate, I'd say don't bet the ranch on Brown. Don't even bet yesterday's grits. Call it 28-7.

DARTMOUTH-YALE: This could be a goodie. But think of poor Bob Blackman. He could fatten his statistics against some of us, but today his statistical averages should suffer. In fact, Yale even has the stuff to upset the Indians. And the Elis want to win this one for Bri. But Yale may be looking past this one a bit to the Harvard game, so let's say Dartmouth, 24-18.