Word: coleman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outstanding defense fixture Captain Bill Coleman is one of the hardest skaters on his team, leading many of the attacks and setting up plays. Though he manages to cover a vast amount of ice in a game, he lacks the finesse necessary to a first class scorer, and he occasionally lets himself be trapped...
...Unlike Coleman, Sherm Gray rarely carries the puck up the rink, though he is considered Hodder's most successful body-checker, and an effective blueline operative. Alternative defenseman Forbes Perkins is the Crimson's third highest scorer, with three tallies to his credit. A former first line wing, he was switched back to the defense to make room for a speedier skater...
Though Harvard refused to surrender to McGill's frantic efforts for a rout, it never displayed its scrappy determination and team play which won the B.U. and St. Nicks tilts. Captain Bill Coleman and his team were worried from the start by McGill's superior, smooth skating outfit, and they never won the confidence to return a concerted attack...
With the team as a whole seldom clicking offensively, the Crimson charges were made sporadically by individual players who occasionally allowed strong skating and stick-handling ability. Center Warren Winslow proved himself most able to match McGill's elusive stick work, while Coleman played the lone wolf on several occasions, almost getting by the opposing netman, Walt Johnson. Skip Erwin came closest to tallying, when only a lightning save by Johnson prevented him from banging home a rebound in the first period...