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Tonight's game will be important for both teams, since Harvard (6-5-2) and Dartmouth (9-8) are fighting for one of the eight ECAC playoff berths. The Big Green has been on the verge of elimination several times this season, especially after back-to-back losses to Boston College and Cornell earlier in the month. But they have managed to hang in there with upsets over Providence (Feb. 10, 4-1) and Cornell...
Princeton and Penn had poisoned the Lions' 3-1 Ivy League record with back-to-back wins last weekend. Earlier, the Lions were served up as a tidbit to a number one ranked Indiana Hoosiers squad over Christmas weekend, losing 106-63 in a game in which they were given as much of a shot as a flickering candle in a Topeka twister...
...Bristol to a Double A championship at the end of last season, he "never hesitated to bring him in--if it's a 2-2 ball game, or 3-3--and that'll tell you how good he is." The formula for these things is usually having two good back-to-back years in the minors. If Brayton performs well for Bristol this year--or for Pawtucket, where he could go in mid-season--then he's ready for the big leagues...
When the team reassembled this year, though, a marked difference emerged in its style of play. Suddently the players began to forecheck and take good shots on net, with the immediate results being back-to-back triumphs over national powerhouse Michigan State...
Then Brown lost three and tied one of its first four games that year, and the laughing turned to howling. Unfortunately for the other Ivies, however, no one has laughed since. Anderson took his team to Princeton and Cornell for back-to-back road contests two years ago and emerged with 7-6 and 17-7 victories, the Bruins' first wins in Princeton and Ithaca since 1948 and 1956, respectively...