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...them, and for the diehards who fill the bleachers at Jadwin Gym and the Palestra to watch Princeton and Penn battle for the Ivy League basketball title each year, the season doesn’t end with a matchup against one legendary rival. At other schools, road trips are more a rite of passage, less an enjoyable diversion. With the “sixth man”—the fans—squarely in their corner, foes of Harvard generate electricity strong enough to overcome any sluggishness from the travelling or unfamiliarity with the facilities...
During intermission of the men’s hockey team’s conference quarterfinal matchup against Brown, an American Airlines sponsored contest was held, in which students were given an entry form and told to make a paper airplane, which they would then throw on the ice. The plane landing closest to a cone placed at center ice was awarded round-trip airfare to a narrowly-defined set of destinations. But that didn’t stop hundreds of fans from hastily scribbling their names and floating their best chance over the glass...
Last weekend, Harvard women’s hockey fans of all stripes had a rare chance not only to easily find its team’s scores, but also to go root on their friends, classmates or relatives live in person in the season’s championship matchup...
...when the games matter and are tight—like with the matchup of Harvard and Dartmouth at the Bright earlier in the season which drew a near capacity 2,000 fans—the excitement of experiencing a women’s hockey game, even for a sportswriter up in the pressbox, is unparalleled at Harvard...
Corriero’s goal reflected a shift in the momentum of the matchup away from the Saints, who came out of the locker room full of adrenaline and with an aggressive edge despite an uncharacteristic opening lineup featuring two freshmen on the offensive side and two sophomores back on the D-line...