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...Champs" or "chumps" are the alternatives facing the Harvard hockey players as they fly to Ithaca, N.Y., for tonight's game with Cornell. The Crimson skaters played the latter role only two months ago, folding before the Big Red 9-0 at Watson Rink. But it is five years since Harvard held the Ivy League title which it would clinch by a triumph at Cornell's hostile Lynah Rink...
Chances are, however, that tonight's game (to be broadcast over WHRB beginning at 8 p.m.) will result in neither extreme outcome. Harvard has performed well at Ithaca in the last two years, losing only by narrow 7-6 and 4-3 scores. And on the other hand, in its three years of ascendancy, Coach Ned Harkness's team has never lost an important Ivy game. The token defeats--to Harvard, Yale, and this season Brown--have been significant only as demonstrations that Cornell could lose...
...more interesting guessing game revolves around the ECAC standings. If the Tournament Committee follows recent practice and seeds teams on the basis of won-lost percentages, then Cornell will be first and Princeton eighth, but the pairings of the six teams in between are still very uncertain...
...final seedings will turn largely on the outcomes of last night's Clarkson-St. Lawrence game and tonight's B.C.-B.U. game. If the home teams--B.C. and SLU--win, then Harvard will probably finish in fourth place and play fifth-place Brown. The winner will advance to the semi-finals in the Boston Garden on Friday night against Cornell...
...victory was the closet win that the J.V. has had this year and broke the team's four-game losing streak. Its record now stands at 11-4-1 with only Andover and Yale remaining on the schedule...