Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also on the positive side, the ever-improving women's teams bounded ahead once again this year. Women's lacrosse took an impressive fifth in the Nationals, women's soccer commandered a magnificent Ivy Title, and field hockey gained a first-ever win over Princeton...
...Riding high into the Ivy League Tournament, the women's hockey team drops a pair of contests for a disappointing finish...
...Late in the third period the score is even, 3-3, and the Harvard hockey team has a chance to stay, barely, in the race for an ECAC Division One playoff berth. Then the Providence College Friars fire in two goals in the last four minutes...
...National Hockey League, miracles never cease; they just run afoul of the Montreal Canadiens. So it was for the New York Rangers, last season's eleventh-place club that climbed this year to the final round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, only to founder, as have so many other miracles in so many other years, when matched against a team that has won championships across seven decades...
...Canadiens won with a marvelous demonstration of why they are hockey's dynasty. Montreal was humiliated by the quick and aggressive Rangers in the series' opening game, losing 4-1 in a rout so thorough that fans in the Montreal Forum could not believe their eyes. Nor could the Montreal players believe their ears. Ken Dryden, the league's top goaltender for the past three years, was booed out of the nets and replaced by Michel ("Bunny") Larocque. Defenseman Larry Robinson, a 6-ft. 3-in. version of the legendary Bobby Orr, suffered a special torture...