Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Princeton fought a see-saw battle. At the time--after six of eight rounds--they were the only two fencers ahead of Vastola. If--the crowd thought--Pantel beat the undefeated McNamara, Vastola could perhaps secure first or second by thrashing McNamara himself, then polishing off his last foe. Big...
When time resumed its normal course, the red light flashed, the sizable contingent of UNH fans went nuts, and the Wildcats mobbed their captain and each other. A few minutes later, after Tourney MVP Greg Moffat frustrated a few desperate, last-minute Big Green attempts to send the game into overtime, the icemen from Durham, N.H., had grabbed a hard-fought contest, 3-2. It was their first ECAC Division One championship in ten tries at post-season play...
...wasn't easy. Although the defending national champion "Where's B.U.?" Terriers had been conveniently knocked out in the semis, upset-minded Dartmouth proved no pushover. The Big Green, which had gone 0-3 in the playoffs before this year, stunned first-seeded B.U. on Friday night (5-3), matching number two UNH chance-for-chance and hit-for-hit until the final buzzer...
...after hanging tenaciously to its tenuous one-goal lead for nearly 24 minutes, the Big Green produced the Big Screw-Up. Coach George Crowe chose the worst possible time to change both his line, and defensemen on the fly and gave UNH a three-on-nothing breakaway. Gaudet made a chest-save on Ralph Cox, but Bob Francis (son of Emile) flipped the rebound past his left shoulder to knot the contest at one apiece...
...Big Green's efforts were rewarded 6:16 into period three. After Moffett had him twice from in close, and a UNH defenseman had batted away another shot that had goal written all over it, Higgins knocked in a loose puck as he fell to the ice to make...