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Calbom, who gave Harrison the two letters March 1, said at that time that Harrison "failed to encourage self-confidence in the players and made them uptight and unable to concentrate when they were in the game because he tried to captain the team from the bench...
Once more B. U. came back to score but by this time the game was out of reach. As B.U.'s Jack Kelly fumed on the bench, B.U. saw its national championship hopes disappear...
...unusually frantic game that saw both benches empty in the first period, inspired by a large contingent of Brown fans and the normal Section 18 hysteria. The fight erupted when Brown's Curt Bennet went berserk and attacked the Harvard bench with his stick. Bennet received a minor penalty for "malicious use of his stick" and a trip to the locker room for misconduct, a fitting career finale for a defenseman who spent much of the season in the penalty...
...little help to clichés, even in a suicide note, as Aldous Huxley once remarked. Read, if you can, the Latinized techno-pieties of most ecologists. Good intentions are not likely to produce another Shakespeare or a Bible translation equivalent to that produced by King James' bench of learned men. They wrote when English was young, vital and untutored. English in 1971 is an old, overworked language, freshened sporadically only by foreign borrowings or the flickering, vulgar piquancy of slang. All of us-from the admen with their jingles to the tin-eared scholars with their jargon...
Princeton is not unaccustomed to penalties. In Saturday night's 8-5 loss to Yale, the Tigers and Bulldogs cleared their benches in a huge fight with one second left in the game. The brawl left four teeth on the ice and Princeton forward Bob Beezan on the bench tonight with a game-misconduct penalty...