The Crimson women's cross-country team will try this afternoon to jar loose the Ivy Crown that Harvard wore for the first two years of the Ivy Championships but lost last year to a fast paced Princeton pack. The Harriers will run at Fairmont Park, Pa.

Harvard's Paula Newnham, winner of last year's Ivy meet, won't be running today because of a foot injury that has kept her idle for most of this season. Newnham's injury makes Princeton's Lynn Jennings the one to beat, which will be no easy task. Jennings, second in last year's Ivies, recently placed first in the Easterns and has consistently led the Tiger squad.

"Jennings is tough, but Darlene Beck-ford has a shot at taking her. She's really the only one who has a chance. She's been running extremely well, especially considering she was out for three weeks with an achilles problem. She could do it," coach Pappy Hunt said yesterday.

Despite the fine performances expected from freshman Beckford and junior Johanna Forman, it will be tough to trust the Tiger's tail. Princeton boasts an 8-0 record in dual meets and will send seven harriers to the Nationals while Harvard's lone representative at that event will be Beckford, who qualified earlier this week with her eighth place finish in the Easterns.

"We'll be shooting to upset Princeton, but Brown and Dartmouth will be right up there with us," Hunt said.

In the Easterns earlier this week, the Bruins, led by former Harvard student Anne Sullivan, edged the Crimson out of a seventh place finish. Harvard got revenge in that meet, though, placing far ahead of Dartmouth--which defeated the Crimson in a dual meet earlier this season.