Word: puck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where the team showed its weakness most was at defense, and particularly at clearing the puck away from the nets following a save. Much of the time there was no defenseman playing the point, just the BU wing waiting for a pass...
...defenseman is Jim O'Brien. One of the heavier men on the team at 175, O'Brien stands out in feeding the puck to Hubbard and Greeley as well as in his hard body-checking. His defensemate, Bill Kierstad, suffers only from a lack of speed...
Williams was never able to mount much of an attack. Sloppy puck handling and lack of speed undermined the Ephmen, who depended largely on single rushes. Harvard continued to display the poor defensive covering that characterized its play in previous games, but Williams was just incapable of capitalizing on its opportunities...
...Northeastern defense, take a shot and then crash en masse into the boards behind the cage, while the Huskie defense found itself stacked neatly in the goal mouth. Whereupon there would be a face-off deep in Northeastern ice and the Huskies as often as not would grab the puck and break for the Harvard goal...
...second period, Joe Kittredge tied the score at 2-2 by scoring with one man short, and minutes later Dusty Burke grabbed a free puck at the blue line, skated in and scored all alone. After Northeastern had tied it up, Carl Timpson scored at 1:16 of the third stanza. So the Huskies tied up the game again less than five minutes later...