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Pierson jumped off to an 11-3 lead, led by the shooting and ball handling of Dick Jauron - Eli football fullback...
...minutes and 15 seconds, either Harvard or Yale skated shorthanded. Five high-stick penalties were called, including a five-minute major on Yale's Phil Clark for drawing blood. With 2:09 remaining, a scuffle developed that nearly emptied both benches. Only a handful of Eli skaters stayed out of it, and only three Harvard men--Bertagna, Paul and Larry Desmond--remained on the bench, despite Cleary's efforts to restrain his players and thereby avoid five-minute penalties and possible suspensions. It was a disappointing finish to what has normally been a sportsmanlike annual rivalry. In all, 105 penalties...
Four Harvard men were penalized within the first 11 minutes, and the Eli took advantage of the shortage to pump in a quick goal at 2:24, and add a second at 10:10. Both were, to say the least, unusual. Yale wing Larry Bisaro poked in the first goal after it had apparently been tied up by Harvard goaltender Joe Bertagna out of a scramble in front of the Crimson...
Crimson coach Bill Cleary immediately removed Bertagna from the game, replacing him with Steve Perry, and Harvard went on the offensive to try to regain the lead. At 13:54 Harvard's Bill Corkery slapped a rebound into the Eli net, and linemate Dave Hynes added another 55 seconds later on the power play to seemingly place the Crimson out of danger...
...Harvard's optimism was brief. Bulldog captain Roger Demment tied the game within 20 seconds of the ensuing faceoff, and sophomore Mike Walsh flipped in a fourth Yale goal with a minute and a half to play in the period, and the Eli skated off the ice with a completely unexpected 4-3 lead...