Word: puck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Used to chasing the puck, they must learn to stay with their opposite wings and destroy the opponent's plays. Weiland's philosophy, "you can cut a better player down to size if you cover him" is a perfectly valid one but hard to instill in a group of goal-hungry forwards...
Plante had good reason to violate the code of his craft, which allows goalies mattresses of protection around their body and legs, but nothing over their faces to protect them from a hard-rubber puck driven at speeds up to 100 m.p.h. Result: pro goalies regularly contract what the trade calls "rubber shock" (defined by one player as "first cousin to shell shock"), have even skated off the ice bewildered during championship games. Over the years, Plante had faced up to the attack without flinching, and paid the price: broken nose, hairline fracture of the skull, cracks in both cheekbones...
Richard Easton's Romeo is unevenly effective. He has on previous occasions shown great skill with smaller roles, especially comic ones (his Puck last summer was tops). But Romeo marks his first traversal of a long, serious part for the Festival; and there is no reason to expect it to be definitive yet. He clearly has a fine Romeo within him, though. His diction is clear. He has no trouble making Romeo young enough--and young he must be: Romeo matures a little during the play's course, but he never does become a man. At present, however, Easton...
...below his usual performance and ordinarily would have handled most of the four Yale goals scored from beyond 35 feet. Neither Pratt nor the varsity was ready for the wild attack launched by the Elis from the opening faceoff. Left-wing John Schley fought for the puck along the boards and passed across to center ice, where defenseman Bruce Smith fired Yale's first shot. As Pratt seemed distracted by action along the boards, the 40-foot waist-high blast whistled into the right corner for a goal...
Although Dick Reilly, Dick Fischer, and Higginbottom all had chances to win the game during the extra ten minutes, Forstmann fell on the puck often enough to hold on for a tie. The game ended as Crocker Snow narrowly missed breaking away at the Eli blue line...