Word: ecac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have taken a John Belushi-like bellyflop the last four years. The football team, once the Ivy title-winner, lost to Cornell and Columbia--in the same season. The soccer team, once an NCAA regional contender, now can't beat (ulp) MIT. And the hockey team, once a perennial ECAC playoff qualifier, has become a not-so-very-funny joke...
...once-proud Harvard pucksters are 3-8 in the ECAC. When I was in high school, I thrived on the Globe's coverage of Petro and the magnificent Crimson, but since I checked into Mem Hall freshman year, the squad hasn't even made the ECAC playoffs, and this year sure won't be any different. But at least next year's freshmen won't expect as much...
...believe it or not, it didn't seem like an upset. The Larries, who came into the game with the third worst record in the ECAC (2-6-1) and an eight-game losing streak against the Crimson (lest we forget the 10-0 slaying at Watson Rink two Reading Periods ago), completely outskated and outclevered the otherwise engaged icemen from start to finish, and left the bite-sized crowd feeling guilty over the productive things it could have done instead...
Harvard is now 5-10-0 overall, 3-8 in the ECAC. And if you can sit there and say that the playoffs are still a possibility with B.U., Dartmouth and Cornell (twice) still on the schedule, then you are obviously waiting for Bobby Hull to come off the injured list and play left point on the power play...
...NOTEBOOK: The icemen have 12 days off for exams until their next game, in Providence against the Friars on January 31. Harvard topped P.C. 5-2 on November 29 in by far its best ECAC showing of the season...