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...score should have been higher. The Crimson's three lines, especially Captain Bob Cleary's and Bud Higginbottom's, began to click early in the opening period although they could not find their scoring punch until the final stanza...
...winning scores, also a change from the B.U. game, were neither accidental or lucky. The very fast combination of Bud Higginbottom and Dick Fischer was most effective in the game. Fischer had one of the best nights of his career, scoring twice on passes from Higginbottom who also seemed to be in top form...
Paul Kelley's injury and Les Duncan's ineligibility have forced Weiland to change his lineup since early in the season. He has expressed satisfaction, however, with Mo Balboni's work on the first line since Kelley was hurt, but he plans to try both Bill DeFord and George Higginbottom at the position...
...Higginbottom gets the nod as wing on the first line (and it is quite possible that he will), he will provide the speed to the line that has been sorely missed since Kelley's injury. Higginbottom, who has played on the third line all year long, ic actually good enough to be of first or second line caliber. But when Weiland found that Bob McVey, Dave Vietze, and Dick Fischer worked so well together, he decided to leave Higginbottom on the third line to make it as powerful as possible...
Somehow it didn't. The varsity kept pressing until at 10:37 Reilly, who was toll to dress only at the last minute when Higginbottom's injury was discovered, poked in Fischer's rebound. Once again a Crimson goal changed the complexion of the game: from there on it belonged to the varsity in increasing degrees. The first line was now playing its best hockey since the opening minutes of the Army game, and at the 17-minute mark Cleary set Kelley up with a beautiful pass, which the sophomore converted by swerving in on Pitts from the right...