Brown's attack centers largely around a high-powered offense led by senior midfielder Darren Eales. A two-time Ivy League player of the week, Eales leads the Ivy League in goals (13) and total points (31), including three multi-goal games this year. His 75 career points tie him for fourth place on Brown's career scoring list.

Junior goalkeeper Tim Webb will also pose problems for Harvard. He rides a streak of three consecutive shutouts coming into today's game, and he leads the Ivy League in both shutouts (with six) and goals-allowed average (0.60).

Gaffney says that Harvard is well aware of Brown's strengths. "They have really good offensive players and midfielder as well as a good goalie," he says. "They are very well-balanced."

He adds that the team has no plans to over-cover Eales, aside from "playing with a lot of intensity and playing good team defense."

After a 1-6 start to the season, Harvard has improved its play coming into today's contest. And you'd have to say that the team's youth has been one of the key to its turnaround.

Sophomores Will Kohler, Kevin Silva and T.J Carella are the team's three leading scorers (with 16, 11 and nine points, respectively). And fellow sophomore Pete Albers is developing into one of the league's better goalies--he has registered three shutouts and a 1.75 GAA.