Word: hoddermen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following week the handful of Crimson rooters who ventured forth to the Garden in the expectation of seeing the Hoddermen slaughtered by a very fast Queens outfit were amazed when the Canadian six came out on the short end of a very definite 4 to 2 score. And in the same week the Varsity continued in the win column with a win over Princeton in its Quadrangular League opener. Then last week the squad came very close to beating a strong Dartmouth team and battled the veteran Elis to a 2 to 2 overtime deadlock at New Haven...
Harvard pressed hard in the final minutes of the first canto but the only result was a stiff workout for Holt. The second period opened with Yale fighting hard in Crimson territory and goalie Vint Freedley holding them off in brilliant style. Then as the Hoddermen's offensive started to get underway Harry Holt saved things for the Blue with two beautiful stops, one when Freddle DeRham and Dave Eaton set up a perfect play in front of his net and again when Win Jameson had a clear shot...
Harvard held the edge for the rest of the third period with most of the play in Blue territory. In spite of the brilliant play of Austie Harding, who dominated the period with his flashy performance, the Hoddermen were unable to clinch the game...
...Hanover puckmen earned their victory beyond any doubt, but the game was far from the pushover that Big Green rooters hoped for. Although a faster and much more experienced team, the Dartmouth six had to fight every minute of the way to keep the Hoddermen at bay. The Indians scored one in the first period and one in the second, but only the brilliant work of goalie Wes Goding, the smooth checking of the Dartmouth defense and the occasional intercession of Lady Luck enabled them to keep the hard-fighting Crimson forces...
...beyond the blue line slowly, came to a full stop for a moment, and then whipped the puck past Goding on a hard knee-high shot that just caught the corner of the net. From then on the puck was in Dartmouth territory most of the time, with the Hoddermen trying desperately to tie up the score...