Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tonight's game is the Bruins' last encounter with the Hawks before the Stanley Cup playoffs two weeks from now. They will meet New York for the last time here in Boston on March 28 and then go to Montreal on the 30th for their last game with the league leading Canadians...
...number two Larry Sears of Harvard demolished Jon Clark in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3. Fourth singles Tim Gallwey broke through in the eight game of the third set to upset undefeated Gene Scott, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. Allan Goldman rounded out the singles coup at number five with a three-set surprise victory over previously unbeaten Sandy Wiener...
With Wood earning All-America honors, Harvard steamrollered its first seven opponents by a composite score of 149-26. Only the Yale game stood between Wood and an eastern championship. Only Yale and Albie Booth. For the Cambridge flash the script was wrong. Harvard got only one scoring opportunity, blew it and then had to watch in anguish as Booth clicked on a late field goal to snap Wood's string...
...Greatest Game...
Perhaps Wood's greatest game came against Army in that 1931 season. Trailing by two touchdowns, he rallied Harvard to a 13-13 tie, and then performed a predictable feat of heroism. The pass from center for the extra point was low so he scooped up the ball and danced untouched into the endzone for the winning point. Then, as the clock ticked away the final seconds, Army's fleet half-back Paul Johnson broke loose toward the Harvard goal. "He had at least a ten-yard start on Barry, with no one between him and the goal line...