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With seven of eleven starters gone from this year's team, coach Bruce Munro, now starting his 25th season as Harvard head coach, had to fill quite a few positions when his team returned this fall. But, on the basis of a 3-1 scrimmage win against a well-drilled Amherst team that has been together since the beginning of the month, it seems the replacements are already plugging the holes well...
...precision teamwork necessary for a run at the Ivy title, however, probably won't be expected or needed today against the Engineers, who have never posed a serious threat to Harvard's Cambridge soccer hegemony. "We usually show up and expect to win." Munro said yesterday. "Once in a while they come up with a good team, but we never really know too much about them...
...Munro will probably be interested in knowing more about his own squad and assessing its strengths and weaknesses. "The team probably won't be settled for a couple of more games," assistant coach Chris Wilmot said yesterday, "and all these guys are in contention, if not for the starting eleven at least for the eighteen man squad...
Taking into account the apparent weakness here. Munro has shuffled some personnel and realigned his defensive formation. Last year Harvard played a "diamond" alignment employing center back and two sweepers behind the wings. This year, however, Munro has opted for a somewhat safer, less aggressive diagonal defense involving less man to man, and more area coverage, somewhat skin to a rotating zone defense in football...
Right now he needs a certain amount of work but he has looked very good and there probably won't be as big a drop off as people think Munro said...