Word: connorism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fire was put out, he found trays and dishes still in the halls. A small point, perhaps, but, concluded Hilliard, "Cline wasn't doing his job, or he wasn't telling the truth." Cline was questioned again and given a lie-detector test. Said Police Lieut. John Connor: "He failed miserably." Finally, Cline signed a statement admitting to a far more sordid story: he had been engaged in a homosexual act on a sofa in the eighth-floor elevator lobby when his marijuana cigarette accidentally ignited window draperies. He knew his partner only...
...NEIL SHEEHY'S streak of scoring a goal on his birthday during each of the last four years was coming to a close. Sheehy, who had made several fine plays on defense during the course of the evening, had unleashed at least one slapshot at B.C. goalie Bob O'Connor, but, like everyone else, had been stymied by the aerobatic sophomore. But with Boston College losing, 2-0, and no goalie in the nets, Sheehy suddenly found himself all alone on a breakaway. He took his time, skated up past the blueline, and slowly flipped the puck... wide...
Ultimately, the contest is likely to boil down to the same question asked before last Monday's twin-bill: can the Harvard offense produce? Goaltending should not be the deciding factor, as both B.C.'s Bob O'Connor and Harvard's Wade Lau have performed strongly in recent weeks. On defense, the Eagles can rely on strong efforts from George Amidon and Jim Chisholm but they have blueliners out because of injuries, while for Harvard, it's a question of whether offense and defense can forecheck and backcheck together as a unit...
...story in the first period can pretty well be told by the shot totals--the Eagles had 13, while the Terriers went to the locker room with a pattry four shotson goal. O'Connor barely had a chance to wave at the puck...
Johnson knocked in his first one at 12:40, flipping a backhander over an outstretched O'Connor to cut the B.C. margin to one. Hammer's goal followed less than a minute later, when he circled around behind the net and snuck the puck in between Weisman and the right post...