Word: forechecked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard will not completely return to its conservative forechecking system, however. Cavanagh feels that the first line is better suited to the conservative forecheck, but he said that the second line will probably go with aggressive forechecking...
...forechecking system hasn't helped the offense a great deal either, at least against inferior opponents. "It's designed for good teams. We used it for the first time against Clarkson in the Garden over Christmas, and we gave a perfect demonstration of how to use it. But against teams like Vermont and Brown, it would have been better to forecheck aggressively and get our guys skating hard early in the game...
Consequentlly, Harvard will go back to the aggressive forechecking that carried it through the first seven games unbeaten. The Crimson will forecheck hard tonight against an inferior Dartmouth team, and, if all goes well, use the system again against Peun on Saturday...