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Harvard's rookie line contributed three goals as the Crimson rolled over the Bowdoin Polar Bears 4-1 at Watson Rink last night. Pete Sahlin won individual honors with a goal and two assists...
...Crimson controlled the puck in the Bowdoin zone from the opening face-off, and needed little more than two minutes to score. Baldy Smith got his fourth goal in three games on the rebound of Bob Clark's attempted deflection of Gordon Price's slap shot. A few minutes latter, the rookies got their first marker as Sahlin scored on assists from Ken Burnes and Jorge Gonzales...
...Crimson took advantage of two Bowdoin weaknesses to control the puck for most of the rest of the game. Some-times they would skate up to a Polar Bear defender, flip the puck over his stick, and fly by to regain control of the disc, with no checks to hamper them...
When the Crimson tired of this strategy, they become a little fancier. One forward would shoot the puck directly onto a Bowdoin stick; then a second would skate up to the Bear and almost invariably succeed in grabbing he disc away. Puck control was no Bowdoin strong point either...
Several streaks are on the line tonight. Harvard has an eleven game winning streak over the last two years. They haven't been defeated at Watson Rink since December, 1961, when Clarkson turned the trick. They've beaten Bowdoin three times without a loss in their brief series. Tonight at ten you can probably add one to each of these figures...