Word: defenseman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit Defenseman Bill Gadsby was sporting a bruise on his arm the size of a grapefruit. Goalie Roger Crozier had a twisted ankle and a sprained knee. Forward Norm Ullman, the team's top scorer (with 31 goals) during the regular season, was nursing a bruised back. Still, the Red Wings were ahead -and Montreal's Coach Blake was baffled. "We played like amateurs," he moaned. "I just can't understand...
Then the deluge came. A Cornell attackman started the wild flurry by picking up a pass from his defenseman and slipping by Harvard's midfielders. He broke in on the surprised Crimson defensemen and fired the ball right past goalie Ron Wilson before the defense could stop...
...help on lineouts and hooker John Rice's fine play in the scrum, the offense controlled the ball most of the game. Cornell drew first blood, however, on a scissors play, a maneuver where the scrum half and fly half make a pincers-like movement on an outside defenseman...
Harvard is definitely hurting. Star defenseman Rick Loomis is out for an indefinite time with a shoulder injury. His loss might hurt the play of the team's line defensive trio, which has been working together so well...
Munro will continue to experiment this week, switching midfielders and attack men around. He may even try sophomore Fife Symington, a defenseman, who has never played goalie before, in the net, because if Ron Wilson ever gets hurt or penalized in a game, Munro is going to have himself a problem...