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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dartmouth's big guns for tonight's contest will be Fred Riggall, who got the hat trick in Harvard's 7-5 win at Hanover in January, Bill Berry and Bob Nuffert, who didn't play in the previous game because of injuries. Nuffert will add some extra scoring punch to this already powerful first line...
...Catamounts feature a fairly balanced attack, but get most of their scoring punch from the top two of four lines. The first line has accounted for 96 points, the second line...
Harvard's forwards were constantly off-target with their passes. The Local Line, which was outscored by B.U.'s excellent first line 5-0 at full strength, kept dropping the puck to trailing B.U. back checkers. The Local Line also lacked its usual fast break punch, especially center Bob McManama, who played a very sluggish game. All of the Harvard lines had trouble penetrating the tight-checking B.U. defense for an open, close-in shot. B.U.'s goalie, Kevin Walsh, played very well, but I don't think he was really screened on a shot all night, as his defensemen...
...lacking in finesse that he was sometimes booed in victory. He outweighed Frazier 217½ to 214 Ibs., had an advantage of 3½ in. in height and 5 in. in reach. But the champion had met and manhandled fighters of more imposing dimensions. Could Foreman take a real punch? Had he been brought along too far too fast...
...Frazier used to work as a meatcutter in Philadelphia. From the way he boxes you can tell he was a good one. In the ring, Frazier attacks things. He plants his feet, leads with his head and explodes his fists at objects. His punch is a left hook and he will take punches in order to unleash it. Imagine a gas-driven, left-handed meatcleaver and you will get a sense of what dropped Muhammad Ali in the 15th round of his fight with Frazier twenty months...