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Cleary just stood by the Harvard bench and smiled...
...game away and for the first time in his 12 years as the Harvard head coach, Cleary knew that his team had earned the right to call itself the best in the East. As his players skated on the ice and embraced each other, he jumped onto the bench and in a now familiar pose, raised his first in triumph...
Even at its birth, the exclusionary rule seemed to many an overreaction. "The criminal is to go free because the constable has blundered," objected New York Court of Appeals Judge Benjamin Cardozo, who was later to join the high bench. The real howls, however, did not come until 1961, when Earl Warren's Supreme Court ruled that state as well as federal courts were bound by the rule. About half the states had not previously adopted it; they hurriedly set up programs to school patrolmen on the ins and outs of the new requirements. The specifics changed almost monthly...
...shopping around for a replacement. Jerry Lee, 21, looked like just the boy. Nicknamed the Killer, to his perpetual displeasure, Lewis sang country, which was not then considered commercially lot. But he also played mean boogie-woogie. He would sit down on the edge of the bench, right leg stuck out stiff, a habit acquired from practicing when he had a Broken hip. He would whip up a heavy rhythm with his left hand and play such a furious melody with his right that the tune would beg for mercy. The sound was backwoods, roadhouse. Phillips listened...
...NOTEBOOK: Last night's Providence victory was only the fifth shutout ever in ECAC final four action. The last one came in 1973...The game got so sloppy that even basics like getting off the bench posed problems. One Saint tripped climbing over the boards and fell face-down...