Word: defenseman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Defensive Harvard has settled down after allowing four goals against Columbia, giving up only one to Wesleyan (on a penalty shot and shutting out a highly-rated Huerta led Cornell line Outside defenseman Henry Sideropolous has done a fine job adjusting after switching from halfback LaCivita has played well despite bruised ribs, and captain Ric Scott and Brian Fearnett completely shut off the middle against the Big Red Steve Kidder while not a spectacularly exciting goahe like Shep Messing has played consistently well all season...
Twenty minutes after the first goal, Harvard scored its second tally on a textbook-perfect play. RahmaniMossavar made a chip into the penalty area. Papagianis took it on his chest, the defenseman thought he was going to settle it there and came over to cover...
PROFESSION: All-Ivy halfback on Cornell soccer team, regular defenseman on the Big Red's NCAA runner-up hockey team, kicker and punter for the football team, and left fielder for the diamond...
Then there was the play of Boston's Phil Esposito. Though he has been the top-scoring forward in the National Hockey League for the past four years, Esposito has skated in the shadow of his superstar teammate, Defenseman Bobby Orr (who missed the series because of an injured knee). Where would Espo be, many fans wondered, without Orr? In Moscow, with a superlative display of adroit, aggressive hockey, he supplied the answer by leading Team Canada to victory...
...game ignored Esposito (they chose Henderson and the Rangers' Brad Park) even though he scored two goals and two assists. Yet the slight was mild compared with the puerile and unsportsmanlike behavior that marked much of the series. Soviet team officials demanded that Canadian Coach Harry Sinden order Defenseman Gary Bergman to stop skating past baronial Russian Coach Vsevolod Bobrov during games, on the ground that Bergman was making menacing gestures and lewd comments. In turn, Sinden complained about a Russian player making "crazy-in-the-head gestures" at Assistant Canadian Coach John Ferguson. When a West German referee...