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Although UMD boats some of the top forwards in the country, including Bill Watson, who scored over a 100 points this year and picked up the 1985 Hobey Baker Award Saturday, the two crucial scores of the two-game total goals series came from a pair of Duluth defenseman...
...restless body, which never spared itself in sport or danger, was destined to give him one last proud gallop at the end." That fugitive entry from F. Scott Fitzgerald's notebooks characterized his fellow Princetonian Hobey Baker, a man who seemed to have been written rather than born. He was blond, handsome, wealthy, the ultimate preppy more than two generations before the word was coined. In his college days (circa 1912) he led Princeton's football and hockey teams, dazzled classmates and debutantes, then when war came impulsively joined the celebrated flyers of the Lafayette Escadrille. When a headline later...
...University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) boasts last year's coach of the year, a junior forward, who is a leading candidate for the Hobey Baker Award and at the center of the success of a potent first line and power play unit, a junior defenseman whose crisp passing sets up the power play attack, a freshman sensation, who is the son of a former NHI star, and a goalie who the Flames are chasing...
...last four years, both are the skating scourge of their respective conferences, both rely on their first-line led potent power plays to defeat the clutch and grab tactics of their opponents and both have seen their programs benefit from an All-American who has won the Hobey Baker Award in the last two years...
...Hobey Baker candidates Scott Fusco of Harvard and Bill Watson of UMD lead their teams in scoring with 100 and 80 points, respectively Fusco ranks slightly ahead of Watson in points per game and sits in second place--a spot ahead of Watson on the national scoring chart...