Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cornell led, 8-1 after one period, and perhaps Bill Cleary's overmatched squad should have quietly skated off the ice right then and taken the next DC-7 to Logan Airport. For four and a half minutes, the Crimson held gamely to a scoreless tie, but then the humiliation began. Aided by linemate and perennial all-star Lance Nethery, sophomore winger Brock Treadway netted two quickies, at 4:23 and 5:56, on the way to his fifth hattrick of the season and second in a row against Harvard. Treadway, who now leads the ECAC with 28 tallies, completed...
...game long decided, Big Red rooters risked the referee's wrath as they tossed a smorgasbord of seafood and fowl--some as energetic as backskating defensemen--on to the ice before the third period started. Cornell was in fact assessed a delay of game penalty, but Treadway took advantage of it to score a shorthanded goal. Nethery, who with 51 points is one behind Treadway in the scoring race, grabbed his sixteenth goal at 10:23 to complete the scoring...
...epic of regular season that follows, that annually hoists the pastime onto its pedestal. As columnist Art Spander once philosophized, "It remains that time when athlete and spectator both dream, when the dreariness and discomfort of winter at last are slipping away, when baseball once more is the game we knew as kids...
...game we knew as kids. It brings to mind a time when you wanted to be alone as a child. It was a time when the game first became serious, when you first became involved. And if that sounds like a love affair now, that's exactly what...
...somehow you could do it for hours and call it fun, but it was more than a game now. The unconscious seeds of infatuation and addiction had simultaneously heen sown...