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...Stevie Kidder, who is the hero of this essay, sat on the bench his sophomore year and did not get a big head at all. Junior year he got the goalie job after Messing and the rest of the team had gone all the way to the NCAA finals. Chris Papagianis told me at the time that Kidder was a "good kid, but just nowhere near as good as Shep." Papagianis, of course, had an interest in diminishing the performances of other since he had succeeded Messing as hot dog in residence. He loved being the grand...
...both Messing and Papagianis were bearable because they knew that they had huge egos and because they were very good athletes. I often thought about what it must be like for Kidder last year to have Messing hanging over his head. He was not proven, not even really tried in the net, and Messing had had a better team in front of him. Kidder must have been unbearably tempted to play goal as Messing had, to move easily in the crease and depend on sheer coordination to stop the ball. But there was absolutely no way Kidder could have been...
...Kidder has had more to do with Harvard's semi-respectable showing this year than any other single player, though Brian Fearnett comes close. Kidder has shut out the opposition three times so far; he is exactly even with his pace of a year ago, when he picked up six shutouts in the season. He has allowed four more goals in total than he allowed last year, three coming in the Penn game last Friday when the Crimson was totally outclassed. He stopped an amazing 28 shots in that game while Harvard managed to get off only two. Fearnett...
Last year Papagianis may have inadvertently tipped me off to exactly how good Kidder is. Papa had this habit of screwing up his face, as if in pain, shrugging his shoulders and describing the shortcomings of teammates ever so gently; always with generous little excuses and a paternal smile. He understood so well how tough it was for the other guys...
Steve Baumann, co-captain of the Penn squad and an All-Ivy selection at forward last year was particularly damaging with his play-making throw-ins. "Those throwins by Baumann are really more dangerous than cornerkicks," Kidder explained...