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Everyone knew THE Blizzard was coming, but they came to the Beanpot anyway. Over 15,000. When Gene Purdy scored less than two minutes into overtime to vault Harvard past the Huskies, 4-3, severe travellers advisories were already in effect on the highways. I caught the last cab out of North Station, and it cost me $10.00 to make the two mile trip to Cambridge...
...margin of defeat was nothing compared to the three last-minute brawls which punctuated it. I sat there, watching guys I knew squaring off at the blue line, listening to the bitter chants of "Harvard Sucks" ring the Garden rafters, wondering how all of this could be guised in Beanpot garb...
...Beanpot '79, my last as an undergraduate, was a difficult chauvanistic pill to swallow. Harvard, on its way to an 8-17-1 season, lost both games and finished last in the tourney for the first time in 12 seasons. Indeed there was nothing appropriate...
...stuck around for the B.C.-B.U. final, ironically the most exciting, most Beanpot-type game of the past four years. The Terriers took the final, 4-3, and Darryl MacLeod, on most days a third-rate forward for B.U., won the Most Valuable Player award...
...teams, four tense hockey games: one winner, three losers. A hockey cathedral, Boston Garden, which first opened its doors to the sport when Calvin Coolidge was in the White House, rattled by the din of 15,000 fanatics and an occasional passing Green Line hulk outside. Blizzard optional. The Beanpot...