Word: carom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most glaring irregularity in the Ivy selections must be the absence of the league's top scorer and second leading carom-grabber, Cornell's Mike Davis. The 6-4 forward placed on last year's All-Ivy second team and is the only-one of the top five scorers not to receive a distinction. The fact that he accumulated these impressive totals while playing on the worst team in the Ivies, does not justify relegating him to the honorable mention category...
...only tally of the contest came just two minutes into the first half, when two-time scoring leader Sarah Mleczko drilled a shot off a penalty corner by right wing Sue Field. Southern goalie Donna Pirillo deflected Mleczko's try, but junior Jenny Stone was waiting for the carom, and punched home the rebound...
...skill soon won him the respect of the players as well-and an income of about $80,000 a year. Says fellow American Armando Gonzalez: "His remate [backhand carom] is devastating, a knockout punch. There's no defense." An old Basque adversary, Jose Solaun, agrees: "Make a mistake against him and you're dead." Acknowledgment has sometimes been grudging, however. Jai-alai, long dominated by the Basques, is a clique-ridden world that does not suffer outsiders gladly. Solaun admits that his countrymen distance themselves from the handsome young American: "There is a resentment and coolness, a feeling...
Hozack's shorthanded goal at 13:13 widened the Harvard lead to 4-1, but Sean O'Byrne tallied one for the Tigers half a minute later with help from a strange carom off the boards in the Harvard zone. Jack Hughes ended last night's scoring with a goal...
Following Purdy's goal, Harvard assumed a 3-0 first-period advantage on Hozack's first score following a weird carom behind Wilson and a Hughes...