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Within an hour, the Breed battalion trundled into a parking lot near the building, quietly paid their entrance fees, and checked their walking sticks and canes (no check was made for concealed weapons). Marching two by two, military fashion, they surrounded the 60-by-90-ft. walled auditorium. Among those within their ring were about a dozen Angels watching over the gaudy bikes they had brought to display. As hints of a hassle spread, the floor began to clear. Soon another dozen or so Angels barged into the auditorium. As the band played Knock on Wood, a member...
Dave Corwin, head of the three-man private guard force, later admitted: "We expected trouble, but nothing like that." As soon as he heard the scuffling, Corwin dashed into the auditorium. "The only knife I saw was the one coming at me," he recalled. "I nailed the guy with my nightstick and that was the last I saw of him. Anyone who put up a fight, we'd knock against the wall, throw down the stairs and out the door. That would take the fight out of them." Added off-duty Patrolman Thomas Burton: "I tried to break...
...headquarters, and two dozen wagons and cars full of police were dispatched. But the police lieutenant in charge was told inside the hall that there was no trouble, so he dispersed his men outside. When the brawl broke out, only five policemen and three private guards were inside the auditorium...
...shot one net from inside 30 feet, while Denver constantly beat the Crimson to the puck and pressured Durno. Harvard did manage to blow one perfect scoring opportunity, however, as Bob MeManama missed an open net. The chance was set up by an unusual rebound off the War Memorial Auditorium's new boards that fooled the Denver goalie as he left the cage to cover the shot...
...complete the irony of the situation, Syracuse's auditorium is much larger than the Lake Placid rink so without nearby Cornell or Clarkson in the tournament, it is very unlikely that the games will be sold...