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With a slightly shuffled skating arrangement finally bringing out the sextet's latent offensive power, Coach Cooney Weiland's skaters remedied the lack of scoring punch which they showed against Boston College. The new first line of Bud Higginbottom centering between Dick Fischer and Dave Vietze, accounted for five of the varsity scores, three going to Vietze and one each to Higginbottom and Fischer, and the second line of Mo Balboni, Paul Kelley, and Dick Reilly tallied twice...
...varsity hockey team, with what it hopes was just a sad mistake behind it, travels to Vermont today to oppose a Middlebury team which is largely an unknown quantity. The Vermonters opened their season yesterday at West Point against a very weak Army sextet and emerged with an 11-1 victory. However, as Middlebury coach Duke Nelson points out, the win did little to establish anything about his squad except that it can beat Army...
This loss came as no surprise to veteran Crimson hockey observers who watched the sextet blow its opener to Providence College two years ago and repeat this performance against Boston University last December...
...most unfortunate aspect of this performance, however, comes by way of comparison with last year's squad. The 1957 58 sextet also suffered considerably from this defect, but it was filled with such a number of scoring individualists, such as Bobby Cleary, Lyle Guttu, and Bob McVey, that the Crimson could afford to botch a few--or even a good many--scoring chances...
However, the most interesting contest of the season comes January 12, when the Russian Olympic team journeys to the Boston Garden to meet the Crimson sextet. The varsity will play under Olympic rules, which do not permit any body-checking, and the game itself could be a commentary on the superiority of international competition. "After all, they're the best team in the world," Weiland notes...