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Tufts, on the other hand, forechecked continually, and gave the varsity a good deal of trouble in clearing the puck, especially in the first two periods. The Jumbo offense was limited primarily to a floater and to a few disorganized dashes...
Higginbottom scored the varsity's first goal only 38 seconds after the opening face-off, receiving a pass from Mike Graney and banking in a shot off Jumbo goalie Kenny Tondreau's pads. When Fischer scored, less than a minute later, it seemed a massacre was in the making, but the referee called the tally back, ruling that a Crimson player was in the Tufts crease...
...varsity first line scored again at 11:01 of the period when Higginbottom took a pass from Dave Vietze and pushed the puck in from out of the middle of a scramble in front of the Jumbo nets...
Tufts came roaring back in the second half, and with 8:29 remaining in the game the Jumbos hit for seven straight points to cut its deficit to 53-46. Tempers began to flare during the Tufts surge, as Donohue and Jumbo Dick Mapp exchanged punches in a free-ball scramble and when a struggle for a rebound produced a ten-man pile-up under the basket...
With 3:58 to go in the contest, Tufts brought the score to 54-50, but driving layups by Donohue and Harrington matched two more Jumbo scores, and Bob Bowditch scored on a pass from Bob Repetto to ice the game...