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Super forward Lee Nelson is paying the price for his 12-goal performance last year. Wesleyan fullback Alvin Peters marked Nelson man-to-man through all of yesterday's game--the third time in three games Lee has received special attention... Injuries continue to plague the team. Tommy Hsiao (sore knee) watched the game yesterday in his civvies, and sophomore wing Alberto Villar twisted an ankle in practice Monday to go along with his continuing sweat gland problem...
...Haywood Miller, Frank Preziozo, Mike Kennedy and Scott Pink kept the game close. "Our defense can play with any attack in the country," claimed goalie Kenny First last night. And against Hopkins, the man who showed that most clearly was Miller. The freshman standout from Baltimore played man-to-man against All-American Mike O'Neil, who won the award as the best attackman in the nation last year. While O'Neil did come up with two goals and three assists, those points were almost exclusively a result of unsettled situations rather than one-on-one encounters...
Harvard's first-half game had more turnovers than the pastry window at Elsie's, and the man-to-man defense looked like Swiss cheese as Dartmouth made uncontested lay-ups in bunches and threatened to turn the contest into a feast. Only Cy Booker's offense kept the home squad in the game...
...pace of the second period slackened as both teams were plagued by poor ballhandling and violations. The Crimson alternated between man-to-man and a press, while the Big Green stuck to a zone, with an occasional backcourt press that Harvard frequently broke...
Princeton's hustling man-to-man defense knocked Harvard out of the game early. The Crimson were scoreless for the first four minutes of the contest, and never got closer than nine points the rest of the night...