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Lack of aggressiveness, the varsity soccer team's old bugaboo, caught up with Bruce Munro's booters again this weekend, and they dropped their fifth game of the year to an inferior Princeton outfit, 2 to 1, at Princeton. The Crimson travels to Storrs tomorrow to take on the University of Connecticut...
...Munro termed it "a good game." He said "the teams were evenly matched, but Harvard didn't seem to have its mind on the game. They were logy, partly due to the long trip, but that is no excuse." Princeton beat the Crimson to the ball most of the game and had more scoring chances than Harvard...
...periods Harvard dominated the game, while the Lord Jeffs played the more aggressive soccer in the middle quarters. In the first period the Crimson took eight shots to the Purple's five and kept the ball in the Amherst zone. For the first time against a major opponent Bruce Munro's men were passing to each other and not just up the field...
...Munro then began to pull his starting team and use the reserves, and Amherst picked up their last goal at 9:58. Munro then put back his regulars, and though the final ten minutes of the game were rough and frenzied, the Purple was unable to put together a concerted attack, and the game ended, 3 to 2, for Harvard...
...Dartmouth game, with three first stringers absent, the team looked shoddy, and the 5 to 0 score was one of the largest ever run up against a Munro team. After a minor comeback against M.I.T., the Crimson may do better today...