The freshman soccer team--with its players' injuries newly healed and its expectations high for a clean, skillful game--faces Yale confidently today at 2 p.m. in New Haven.

Harvard coach Dana Getchell scouted the match last week in which the Blue whipped Andover, 4-1. "Yale has a quick attack and a couple of extermely powerful fullbacks," Getchell said yesterday. "They are a tough club--tougher than any I've seen come out of New Haven in three years."

"Nevertheless I'm optimistic," Getchell said. "The bright, dry weather and Yale's preference for ball-control should make for the kind of precise soccer our squad likes." Getchell added. "At least Yale doesn't play Brown's type of bang-ball." The Bruins stymied Harvard here last week, 2-2.

Brown's "bang-ball"--no-holds-barred physical contact--left a number of injuries for Getchell to deal with:

Starting halfback Brock Walsh came out of last week's match with a hemorrhaged charlie-horse in his thigh. Getchell put him in heat therapy all this week. At yesterday's scrimmage Walsh was back on the fied, running well.

Goalie Pete Zurkow sustained a hip contusion last week. He came back into the nets Monday, and Getchell will start him today.

Winger Vinnie Vanderpool-Wallace, plagued by a hurt heel, regained his old celerity in this week's scrimmages. "Vin'll outrun 'em all at Yale," Getchell said.