Word: msu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With a green Viking hat on his head, a shamrock on his cheek, and a banner in his hand. Dave Borgman, a hefty man in his mid-30s, was the consummate MSU fan. The Harvard hat impaled on the horn of his headpiece was the finishing touch...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard has split its four previous games with MSU. The last encounter was a 6-4 Spartan win in the consolation game of the 1980 Great Lakes Tournament in Detroit a Michigan version of the Beanpot which invites a non-local team to join MSU. Michigan and Michigan Tech (and which last year drew the largest crowd ever to see a hockey game--21 347--for the finals...
...Still MSU is not know for an explosive offense. The leading scorers' stats might look fearsome on an ECAC team but the Spartans have played 10 more games-they're 30-10 entering the Nationals: Harvard...
...closer look at their goals-per-game average shows that MSU's strength clearly lies mostly with its defense. They've scored and allowed fewer goals than Harvard. Their best player, outside of Scott is probably senior defenseman Ken Leiter (first-team All-CCHA this season) the defensive minded blueliner (3-28-31) in a starting pair with sophomore Dan McFall...
...anything good can be said about the budget ordeal at MSU it's that for the most part, it's over. Studer says that student morale is pretty high now that all the cuts are definite. "At first, it was perceived there would be a mass exodus from the university. Now there's very little talk about that. It's a process you'd only want to go through once, but the university and the students will come out stronger for it." And Studer notes that MSU has purged from its system what several universities have yet to confront...