Word: rink
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their faces? During the long and short programs, they put great weight on the reputation of a contestant. A neophyte skater may turn in a string of leaps and spins more dazzling than Katarina Witt's smile and still get lower marks than the reigning queen of the rink. The practice cuts across political affiliations. A Soviet judge will give a prominent American higher marks than a fledgling Russian who skates a comparable program. And vice versa. No matter how talented, all newcomers are always a little less than equal. To paraphrase Proverbs 22: 1, a good name is better...
Last night's victory over Harvard had the Duke thinking. Can the Catamounts become one of the league's elite teams? They took a giant step last night in a rink where the Crimson has lost only twice in the past 44 games...
...Crimson wasn't even close to overtime last night as it defeated Yale, 4-1, in front of 85 fans in Ingalls Rink...
Harvard's most important game of the year occurs Saturday at Princeton's Hobey Baker Rink. where the Ivy frontrunners will determine home-ice advantage for the Ivy League tournament. Should Harvard win, the playoffs will be in Cambridge. If the Tigers triumph, Crimson must defeat Dartmouth and hope for help from Cornell or Yale against Princeton...
...ring into a regulation hockey goal. There is no offside rule in effect, but there are restrictions on the movements of the players. The defensemen and forwards cannot cross their side of the center-ice red line. But the center is allowed to go into both halves of the rink, so she must be able to defend the other center and also beat the other center into the offensive zone. The speedy Lind, not surprisingly, played center...