Blood and beer will be the fare when the Crimson ruggers wind up their informal all season against heavily-favored MeGill University of Montreal this afternoon . . . with the traditional drinking bout following the game. The game is at 2:30 p.m. in the House football field on Soldiers Field. Harvard's rugby team has played to are scoreless ties, with M.I.T. and Princeton, while MeGill defeated the Engineers, top, last week in Canado.

Today's game will be the toughest of their first fall season for the ruggers, but they have beaten and tied MeGill in their last two games. MeGill has a powerhouse this year, however, as the score against Tech indicates.

Ten practices and only two beer parties are all the Rugby Club has held this all. The Club has about 45 members (dues: five dollars a year; qualification: the care to play rugby) and meet after the games in the members' rooms. Although is not on official team of Harvard, it represents the University in about nine comes in its regular spring season, including the Bermuda trip, and plays three in the fall. Organized as a club, it is not supported by the University.

Anyone can play--today's team consists of one medical student, three Business school students, one Law School student, and ten undergraduates--making the required 15 men. New recruits will be called for in February when the Club starts as practicing for Bermuda in April.

Rugby in America is much like English rugby, except for the informal, casual respect of the American college players. The object of the game is to score a goal," which consists of a "try"--like a touchdown in football--and a conversion after it. The try counts three points, and there conversion two.

Play is continuous except for penalties, and there are no time-outs or substitutes. The ball is put in play by throwing it into the "scrum"--the eight forwards of each team who lock arms, put their heads together, and attempt to get and stop the ball from each other. The "hooker"--middle man in the front row of three--heels it back through the ranks until it is taken by the "scrum half" who hands behind the scrum. He throws it out laterally to the fly half, who tosses it center three-quarters, and they to the wings, who try to run with it. The basis of the game is the lateral pass--no forward passing is allowed. The ball is advanced by a series of short laterals and not long runs. There is no interference.

This year's team is essentially the same as last spring's squad which won five and lost four. Scotsman Colin McIntyre, club president, plays one of the wing forwards corresponding to linebackers. He is one of the four foreigners on the starting team. Jim Callahan from England plays fullback, corresponding to football's safety man, and French-born Pierre Lelandais and Gordon Hutchinson from Cotland are wings. Sam Butler and Sam Adams, both football lettermen, are the center three-quarters, and the fast power runners. Butler is vice-president of the Cub, and Adams is team captain.

140-pound Doug Worrall is the fly-half, and John Cotter is the scrum-half, Roger Gleeby is the "lock," polo-playing Tom Calhoun the other wing forward, while George Lee, Club secretary, and Brad Lundborg make up the second row. Doug Hardy and Club treasurer Bruce White are in the front row, with Lew Travis as be hooker. The spares are Hollis Hunnewell, Ken Kunhardt, Kit Liang, Andy Eklund, and David Akers.