Word: game
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dominating play throughout the entire game, the varsity hockey team recaptured second place in the Ivy League by edging Yale at the Arena Saturday, 2-1. The Crimson would have run the score higher but for some classy goal-tending by Gerry Jones...
...Elis opened the game with surprisingly conservative hockey, refraining from serious forechecking and playing a close defensive game. Even so, the varsity's pitifully poor passing and positioning on the clears kept it from scoring...
...Yale zone until the puck was tied up at 4:27 for a faceoff in the circle to Jones' right. Reilly swung as the referee dropped the puck. His shot caught the goalie flat-footed in the near corner, bouncing into the left-hand side to tie the game...
...Cannon assault force heckled and booed the varsity during the entire contest from their vantage point behind the Crimson bench, and finally precipitated a near-riot at the end of the game when one of the savages tumbled out onto the floor and slugged Harvard captain Bob Repetto...
...minute mark, Harrington sparked a drive that brought them even at 60-60 with six minutes remaining. But a minute later, Burns drove directly down the middle of the keyhole for a three-point play and a 64-60 lead for Princeton. It was all over but the post-game fracacs...