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...Friday night, that the committee would decide another team--perhaps Providence--should go. If Harvard beats Clarkson, of course, it will clinch a spot...Nine times since 1962, the Crimson has reached the semifinals, including the last three times it made the playoffs, in '74, '75 and '76. The icemen are now 18-14 in playoff games, including two shutouts for and none against...The Harvard crowd, although certainly the loudest and best in Bright Center's history, was well-behaved, saving its ice-barrage for after the game, when victory was in hand. "Hey, there super," Bill Cleary said...
...nailing down their first win in an ECAC playoff game since stopping UNH in the first round back in 1976, the icemen relied on a little luck, some expert penalty killing and forechecking, and the super goaltending of Lau, who turned in his third shutout in his last four games. The game was very much like last year's Harvard win over B.C. in the Beanpot final, also by a 2-0 score, the last time Lau and Eagle netminder Bob O'Connor squared...
...speak, of course, of the Harvard hockey team. With their win Saturday night against Dartmouth, the icemen garnered their first Ivy League title since 1975 and gained a berth in the ECAC playoffs for the first time since 1976. To make the playoffs, the Crimson had to win its last four games, and six of its last eight with one tie, coming from back in the pack to overtake Yale and Cornell for the title and earning home ice in the opening round of the playoffs tomorrow night...
Most surprising of all, the icemen have not done it alone. The Harvard hockey players have become the favorite sons of the normally apathetic Harvard sports fans. The last three games at Bright Center have been played before capacity-plus crowds, and two weekends ago, the Crimson faithful out-Cornelled Cornell, right down to the live chicken. Save the Yale game, it has been a long time since anybody at Harvard got this excited about anything...
...congratulate the Harvard hockey team for making the playoffs after going for so long without a chance for post-season laurels. And also, we would like to thank the icemen for giving Harvard University something to cheer about in these otherwise gloomy times...