WANTED: Loudmouths, people who like to yell, scream, jump up and down, etc., at sporting events. Ex-cheerleaders encouraged, but absolutely no experience necessary. No polite applauders. Members of Watson Rink's Section 18 welcome, but please no dead chickens. Enquire at the Business School Field, Saturday, November 16, 10:30 a.m.

"What we'd like," Harvard soccer coach George Ford said of this Saturday's showdown between his squad and Brown, "is a really vocal crowd down there."

Not that he's advocating a European or South American-style soccer riot with fans going absolutely out of control over the outcome of a contest.

Just a little more noise than the usual Harvard fan emits.

A lot is riding on this contest, like the Ivy League title for instance. The defending champion Brown team and the underdog Harvard squad both are unbeaten after five Ivy League contests with one more game after this weekend's battle (Yale at Harvard, Brown at Columbia).

The Bruins were considered from the start of the season as shoo-ins for the championship. Brown is loaded with individual talent, such as high-scoring sophomore Fred Pereira, goalkeeper Mike Hampden, an All-American candidate from Guyana, back Jose Vidente, who also kicks field goals for the football team, as well as 13 returning lettermen from the Bruin team that went all the way to the NCAA semifinals in Miami last season.

The Crimson is a decided underdog. As the season began, most predictors weren't giving Harvard a chance for much better than a second-to-last place finish...ahead of Columbia, big honor. But after all, they reasoned, here's a team with a first-year coach trying to rebuild from the ashes of a dismal season last year without the outstanding talent that has been the trademark of many of the championship Harvard teams in the past.

But Ford has created such a phoenix, molding his players into a cohesive, well-conditioned, aggressive team. And he has taken them past the wildest imaginations of the pre-season prognosticaters, to a showdown with the favorites.

The outcome of Saturday's clash will no doubt be close, very close. The championship probably won't be decided by more than a single goal. And a good deal of Harvard's fortune will be riding with the home crowd advantage. That's why Ford and his players want to exploit it as much as possible.

Harvard has thrived all season on its underdog role, drawing out the best of Ford's well-trained players. The Crimson psyche factor will compensate for Brown's superior natural talent.

But this is not to say that the Bruins won't be up for the contest too. After all, the soccer squad has to make up for the disappointing performance of the football team, which the fans in Providence envisioned as an Ivy champ in September. The gridiron glory went down the tube for Brown, but that was only a dream.

The soccer team was and is a reality. It is supposed to blitz the Ivy booters' circuit. The only obstacle between them and the title is Harvard.

So it promises to be a highly emotionally charged game for both teams. Harvard has to prove it is not as bad as most people said it would be. Brown has to prove it is every bit as good as was predicted.

For Ford and his squad, the fans could make all the difference.