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DIED. Jackie Coogan, 69, the actor who became the movies' first blockbuster child star when, at age six, he played the moonfaced ragamuffin in Charlie Chaplin's 1921 classic The Kid; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. The son of vaudevillians, Coogan starred in such vehicles as Peck's Bad Boy (1921) and Tom Sawyer (1930), and in 1923 was voted America's most popular movie actor. "Other boys went to see Babe Ruth," he recalled a half-century later. "Babe Ruth came to see me." Though he had made more than $2 million...
Penn finally got on the board midway through the half when Derek Murphy took a pass from Jon Urffer and fired a low hard shot past Harvard keeper Phil Coogan...
With a man advantage, the Quakers were able to keep play in front of the Harvard goal for the remainder of the contest. But several clutch saves by Coogan and shots that sailed high over the goalposts stymied the Quakers for the rest of the game...
...disappointing to outplay a team and lose," Coogan said...
...Coogan was unimpressed by the Hartwick offense. "We had more play on their side," especially in the second half, Coogan said. The four or five saves he made during the game weren't enough to keep him busy...