Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shadow tries hard to make exciting capital out of Private Detective Nick Charles's solution of the deaths of a jockey, a blackmailing reporter and a racetrack tout, occasionally succeeds, more often falls flat on its formula. Actors Powell & Loy do not try as hard as the rest, appear to be just going through the paces. Result: a typed who-done...
Early in the game the Crimson defense was too widely spaced, and accounted in some measure for the early St. Nick's edge. This, and the fact that the St. Nick's strategy was to pour on pressure early and then coast through the rest of the game, gave starting goalie Ab Fenn a difficult night in the nets...
Throughout the game the Crimson kept the puck in the St. Nick's zone most of the time, but the team lacked scoring punch until late in the game. During the time they were behind, and Harvard did not tie the game up until three minutes before the end of regulation playing time, the Hoddermen kept on driving with spirit not seen all last year, and their efforts were rewarded in a most gratifying fashion...
...side of a 3 to 1 count, the Crimson finally clicked. First George Gebelein, who scored the Crimson's first goal on Johnny Paine's first period pass from behind the cage, scored again. Gordy McGrath, left wing on the starting line, fired the disc in on the St. Nick's goaler, who cleared it poorly. Gobelein was waiting for the rebound and had little trouble in backhanding the puck into an open...
...overtime St. Nick's stopped coasting and put on the pressure, and only a "prayer mat" stop by O'Neill kept them from going out in front. Al Everts, center of the Sophomore trio, put the Crimson ahead 4 to 3 when he batted the puck past the goaler in a scrimmage in front of the crease. In spite of the obvious teamwork on this play the officials did not give credit for an assist, although probably both of Evert's wingmen deserved credit...