Word: ecacs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Terriers are ready to lay claim to the Garden ice once again, as they face Brown tonight in the ECAC finals. Brown sent Cornell into the consolation game against Harvard (tonight, 6:15) in the earlier semifinal contest, by a 6-2 count...
Halfway through the second ECAC semifinal contest in the Boston Garden last night, most of the 13,044 fans were wondering what Harvard was doing there in the first place. By that time, Boston University had racked up a 6-1 lead on the way to running roughshod over Harvard...
...which sounds sort of pessimistic. It is. Harvard has a lot to prove tonight. Memories of the incredible 1974 Beanpot championship victory over the Terriers can be stretched only so far, the Crimson has not won a big one against B.U. since 1971, the year Harvard won its last ECAC championship...
Cahoon, who skated with the Terriers between 1969 and 1972, says his squad is preparing for this one as it would any big game. "You can't look at the records (B.U. is 22-2-0 in the ECAC) as last Tuesday's games proved. The bottom four could easily be in the Garden tonight...
...wins, like last Tuesday night, you're so happy it doesn't matter that your prediction was wrong. And if Harvard loses, you can say you knew it would happen all along. So I'm tempted to pick the Terriers, who are heavily favored on paper in tonight's ECAC semifinal contest. I was burned on the UNH prediction and goalie Brian Petrovek told me the team would be "happy to burn me again." Good strategy. But a renewed sense of spirit and optimism (not to mention the death threats) has caused me to go with the Underdog. Harvard...