Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rule book. With the regular season expanded by two games to a total of 16, the league shifted to scheduling that pitted top teams against top teams and also-rans against also-rans more often than ever. The new scheme eliminated the sort of scheduling vagaries that in the past often allowed strong teams to feast season-long on weaker opponents...
...schedule was cut to four games instead of the customary six. Many players found it difficult to get into shape during the truncated exhibition season, and coaches were unable to groom second-stringers or work the kinks out of new plays. Says Oakland Raider Coach John Madden: "In the past we would plan on playing Ken Stabler, for example, twelve quarters in preseason. Over six games, that would mean he'd play half of each game...
...finally taken lively root in the sport, and this season has already produced 330 more points than last year. Los Angeles Coach Ray Malavasi explains: "The N.F.L. had gotten stereotyped, but the A.F.L. came up with new formations- multiple fronts, multiple coverages, using men in motion -and in the past four or five years, teams have begun to use them...
Less than a minute into the third, after Lau twice stopped Dave Stoyanovich (Steve's brother) on the doorstep, right winger Gene Purdy brought the Crimson to within one as he broke in alone off a fine feed from Bob McDonald, swerved left and backhanded the puck past all-ECAC netminder Ian Harrison...
Harvard pressed for the tying goal, but when right winger Steve Slack swooped in on Lau and drilled an unassisted goal past his right pad to up RPI's lead to 5-3 with 13:54 to play, the game appeared out of reach for the Crimson...