Fans watching Olympic soccer in Harvard Stadium the last two days were beginning to wonder it they would ever see a goal. They waited two days more than a game and a half, finally, Canada's Gerry Gray put one in at 25.30 of last night's game to end the scoring drought.

But Gray's goal was not enough, as the Iraqis rallied to tie the game, which ended deadlocked at 1-1. In Sunday night's Olympic opener. Norway and Chile played a cautious game for 90 minutes which ended scoreless.

After last night's action, group. A has four teams tied in the race for a trip to the second round in Los Angeles. While Norway and Chile danced in Boston. Qatar held a heavily favored French team to a 2-2 tie to deadlock the tournament in Annapolis.

In group B. Canada and Iraq are tied for second place behind Yugoslavia, which beat Cameroon 2-1 last night in Annapolis. After a round robin series, two teams from cash division the two groups splitting their time between Massachusetts and Maryland and two more playing all their games on the west coast will move on to the quarter finals Los Angeles next week.

Olympic style soccer is a much more disciplined game than the kind played in North America: spectators noticed the difference in the cautious play and low scoring of the last two nights.

In the first half, the teams traded possession, with Iraq holding only a slight advantage, causing, for awhile, the most exciting action to come from the Iraqi cheering section.

Hundreds of screaming Iraqi fans donated the crowd, waving flags and pictures of President Saddam Hussein Beating drums and tambourines and blowing horns, the Iraqi throngs greatly outnumbered the three Canadian flags on the opposite side of the stadium.

The second half began faster with both teams exiting the locker room pumped up and ready to plan harder. At the five minute mark, Canada had the nearest most of the night when Randy Reagan he also from 25 feet out hit the cross her and Gray smashed the rebound into the goalpost.

"We're really not very far away from becoming a very good team and in this case, we write about a goal post's width away," said Canadian Coach Tony Waters.

The bill moved up and down the field with both teams running and tackling hard for the next 20 minutes but neither was able to establish a great advantage and the crowd was beginning to grumble about the lack of scoring. Then forward Dale Mitchell beat an Iraqi defender, pushed the ball deep into the right corner and chipped a perfect pass to Mike Sweeny on the other side of the net.

Sweeny, who has played with Gray for several years, blocked the ball back to his charging teammate, who booted it into the corner of the net from just outside the penalty box.

The goal was set up by action at the opposite end of the field 30 seconds earlier, when, after beating his man and charging in alone from the left side, Iraq's K.H. Awali tripped and fell just in front of the Canadian goal.

Iraq initially controlled the rebound but was unable to attack because Awali remained injured on the ground offsides in front of the net. Bottled up in the middle of the field, Iraq lost the ball, with Canada capitalizing on their advantage.

After the goal, Iraq quickly regained their composure and pushed the pace, struggling to regain the advantage. Iraq had been pressing the middle of Canada's defense all night and with seven minutes left in the game, Hussain Saeed Mohamed slipped between the defense off a free kick, set play and beat Lettieri to tie the game.

The goal was a special one for Mohammed. Going into the game he and the Iraq coach, Ammoud Baba, shared the country's record for most goals scored in the Olympics but Mohammed's score last night pushed him ahead.