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...Harvard hockey team will beat Minnesota for its second national championship. Freshman wing (and starting pitcher) Chris Drury will slam home the game-winner on a rebound of a slapshot by his brother Ted '93-94, a former Olympian. Coach Ronn Tomassoni, Athletic Director Bill Cleary and Associate Coach Lane MacDonald will lead the celebration, reminiscing about the days when college athletes actually played for free...
That style is, of course, one of the main reasons the former Olympian chose Europe over a bigger-bucks offer from the Hartford Whalers. Harvard Coach Bill Cleary once called MacDonald the "best pure skating player" he had ever seen. In Switzerland, MacDonald gets a lot of room to do what he's best at--skate and score...
...Mark DeWolfe Howe, one of Holmes' legal secretaries, and Grant Gilmore, a professor of law at Yale--have been made since Holmes' death in 1935. But until Sheldon Novick's brilliant and illuminating examination of Holmes' life was released, no one had succeeded in mapping the life of the Olympian jurist...
...students what the biggest team on campus is and the response will be unanimous--the men's ice hockey team, which last April brought Harvard its first NCAA championship since the golf team nabbed the crown in 1905. Minus Hobey Baker winner Lane MacDonald, Olympian Allen Bourbeau, a few other graduates and the hunger for that elusive national title, one can't expect the same from this year's squad...
...Olympian, MacDonald was drafted in the third round of the 1985 draft by the Calgary Flames, and had his rights dealt to Hartford...