Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...persistently futile effort, momentary lapses are entirely unavoidable. The response of the fans to the Band is always nil. In fact, the only positive response the hockey band gets from anyone is great praise and support from the team itself, through Coach Cleary. After last year's playoff upset at UNH (were you there, Mr. Scheft?), Cleary raved about "that great band," and the year before, after Harvard's last-minute 3-2 victory over Yale, Cleary credited the Band as being a major factor in the win. Of course, that was all in past years, but the fans were...
...wild race for the eight playoff berths in ECAC hockey became more confused this weekend, if that is possible, when a hot Boston University hockey team lost to an awful St. Lawrence squad, 8-6, Saturday night. That's the same team that Harvard bombed, 10-0, three weeks ago, and the same one that Boston College murdered on Friday night...
...Johnston gave the Friars their first lead at 9:29 of the middle frame with a pop fly over a sprawled Petrovek, but then Dean, the Wilsons, Cochrane and Dea again went to work, and with the clock ticking down, it was suddenly 4-4 and this was playoff hockey on the early side...
...Nagle was the runner-up in the U.S. Open, losing in a playoff to Gary Player in the best finish ever by a native Australian...
...people in Fenway Park yesterday seemed interested in plastic helmets, team photos or T-shirts. Especially since one long year ago yesterday Rico's concession stands did a brisk business in hotdogs, beer, and peanuts, as well as pennants, while the Red Sox won their first playoff game against Oakland...