Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What figures? They would be the handful of Presidents whose greatness is all but universally conceded. Mount Rushmore epically displays the main clutch of them - Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt. A few more might be added -Jackson, Wilson, F.D.R. It is too soon to say which, if any, of the recent Presidents will ascend to the same folk pantheon. But the ghosts already there are quite likely astir in the elusive archetypal President...
...season's first few games, it was the check-happy Harvard defense that controlled the tempo of Saturday's windchilled contest. Scott Pink's unrelenting stick and Frank "Carlo" Prezioso's positively vicious head-removal service provided the perfect complement to First's clutch goaltending. "Penn's attack is not that good one-on-one," explained Pink, who terrorized Penn attackman Tim Dachille all afternoon...
Sure, there's Bowa, the Bull, Schmidty, Maddox, Bake, Boon, and newcomer Trillo, but a lack of depth and a rotation that is bordering on collapse will hurt the defending division champs. And, anyway, when hasn't a Philadelphia team fizzled in the clutch...
Fade in the Clutch...
...quick goal gave Dartmouth a 1-0 lead, but more importantly, solid backchecking and clutch defense kept the slightly nervous (at first) Gaudet from being too severely tested. Everything hung together for the Big Green until 8:32 of the second, when a miserably-timed line and defense change gave UNH a three-on-zero break and a tie game. The Wildcats needed only 37 seconds to go out in front, but Dartmouth fought back until Steve Higgins made the match, as Bud Collins would say, "dead even" with less than 14 minutes left in regulation...