Word: sextet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year's sextet toppled the Cadets by a 7 to 1 score, but that was at the Arena. Tonight the score probably won't be so one-sided, since the skaters have a long bus trip and an unfamiliar and unfriendly rink against them...
Nevertheless there will be one big factor on Harvard's side--the return to the first line of Lew Preston, large left wing who last year went to Europe on the A.A.U.'s olympic sextet, the team that didn't play. Two seasons before, in 1945-46, Preston was one of eastern college hockey's highest scorers...
...Terriers too, will be a better squad. Although they looked none too steady in their victory over Harvard and having since been beaten by Dartmouth and Brown--teams the varsity has been able to top-they looked red hot against Army and Princeton. The B.U. sextet remains about the best balanced eastern college team, boasting three good lines, a big defense, and an excellent goalie in Ike Bevins...
Four days, later, on February 9, Bill Barclay's hungry five and John Chase's hockey team get going. The basketball team will attempt to snap out of an eight game losing streak against Army at West Point, and the much-improved sextet will get its third try of the season against undefeated Boston College at the Arena...
...such a big jump from collegiate puck-chasing to the National Hockey League after all. Jack Gelineau, McGill University hockey captain and goalie whose last Boston appearance was against the Crimson sextet on December 22, played in the nets at the Garden last night. His team was the Boston Bruins, and the opponent the Toronto Maple Leafs...