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Play got a little rougher as regulation time drew to its close, and the usually restrained Harvard contingent among the fullhouse broke into a thundcrous "Beat B.C. Kupka on a breakaways. McPhee thwarted bids by Dwight Ware and Smith. and Harvard defenseman Charlie Scammon broke up a threat in the Crimson crease. Hurley. Allen, and Fuller then kept the puck in Harvard's zone for an agonizingly long time, before it flonted out in coming in from the right point...
With players like Jerry York, Whitey Allen, Bob Kupka, Woody Johnson, and Paul "The Shot" Hurley, there's no question that B.C. will give the Crimson a real battle. Sophomore George McPhee, who has been seeing most of the action recently, will probably start in the nets, although Jeff Cohen, who played against Harvard last year, is also available...
...left-wing John Cunniff deservedly was awarded the most valuable player award, on the basis of his two beautiful goals and one assist last night. Bob Kupka, Jim Mullen, and John Moylan scored the other Eagle goals...
World War I put an end to Kupka's optimistic colors. He fought in the French army, later returned to help establish independent Czechoslovakia. After the war, like Léger and the Dadaists, he painted imaginary machines in a commentary on dehumanized mankind. He did a series called Hot Jazz, trying to make his lyrical art more bouncy than Bach, but the verve of his youth seemed gone...
Orpheus had apparently looked backward. Kupka's reputation became that of a faceless pioneer, and he seemed not to care. Shortly before his death seven years ago, Kupka received a visit from the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr Jr., who bought a batch of gouaches. "You have to thank her," said Kupka, pointing to his wife. "Without her, all of this would have been burned." Barr turned to Madame Kupka and kissed...