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...dribbler par excellence, Ohiri often carries the ball all the way downfield, and then scores. He boots with a vengeance. Once last year he stunned a goalie with a shot, now he refuses to kick direct penalty shots for fear of hurting the goalie. In half a season last year, he found the nets 14 times and was Ivy highscorer with eight goals...
Brown took the lead for keeps at 16:35 of the first period. After right half John Holbrook beat the Crimson's Tony Davies to the ball and sent it bounding downfield, right wing Jon Fish picked it up and knocked a crossing shot past Harvard goalie John Adams...
Without Ohiri, the Crimson passes to the wings more often, and relies on them to carry the ball downfield. And the wings and insides are expected to shoot, a purely incidental function when Ohiri is in the game. With this system in effect, Seamus Malin, Eb Klufio, John Thorndike, and Al Chang accounted for the varsity's scoring against Columbia...
With illusions of grandeur, the UConns claimed an 11-0 lead almost as soon as play began. Gerald McDonough rolled out on the fifth play of the game and pitched 50 yards downfield to Ron Noveck at the goal line...
...Racing downfield slightly behind two Amherst fullbacks, Ohiri watched a high pass sail over his head. Heading the high-bouncing ball between the defenders, he ran between and past them, picked it up with his right foot, dribbled briefly, and scored easily...