Word: predun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trailing 6-5 late in the first half, the Crimson stickmen reeled off 12 straight tallies last night and went on to burn B.C., 19-8. Freshman Pete Predun, relatively quiet since his ten-point debut three weeks ago, exploded again last night for seven goals to pace the Harvard surge...
...almost a full half, it looked like the game would go down to the wire. Predun garnered a pair of goals and added an assist to stake Harvard to an early 3-0 bulge...
With less than a minute left before intermission, Martin passed off to Predun for the tying score. Everyone expected the same dogfight to continue in the final 30 minutes, but it was an entirely different Harvard team that took the field after the intermission...
After cranking out more than 13 goals a game last Spring, the Harvard offense was clearly not clicking, so Crimson coach Bob Scalise prepared for the clash with Penn by shuffling his inexperienced midfields and moving Predun to attack, where he could play full-time and make the best of his flashy one-on-one moves. Gordie Nelson moved to a midfield slot...
...then Predun, who had already matched Mackenzie's three-goal outburst, missed a shot after beautiful passes by MacKenzie and Steve Martin had left the freshman all alone, face-to-face with the defenseless Penn netminder...