Word: merrimackers
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...Civil War confrontation that changed the course of naval warfare forever and brought an end to the era wooden battleships was the fierce, four-hour battle between the U.S.S. Monitor and the Confederate Merrimack Hampton Roads, Va., on March 9,1862. The contest between the two legendary ironclad men-of-war-the first of its kind in naval history-wound up in a banging, clanging draw, and in May 1862 the Merrimack was scuttled to keep it from falling into the hands of the advancing Union forces. The Monitor met a different fate. Nine months after the fight, she sank...
Twenty seconds later Merrimack's Tom Dettore tied the score again, but then Harvard reeled off three unanswered goals, two by Leckie and one by Hozack...
...Harvard freshman hockey team finally exploded for five goals in the final period to defeat a weak Merrimack junior varsity, 7-4, in a game marred by penalties and two periods of poor play, yesterday afternoon in Watson Rink...
...game began slowly. The Crimson skaters, coming off the three-week vacation, frequently were caught out of position. Only the solid goaltending of Brian Petrovek shut out Merrimack in the first period, which ended with the freshmen leading...
...second period the Crimson continued to skate sluggishly. Hozack scored his second goal at 6:45 of the middle stanza, but Merrimack responded with two goals to close the period tied...