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NCAA regulations require all nongoalies to wear protective face masks. Most teams use a simple wire shield, but no mesh of wires covers Crimson cheeks...
...Itech "Face-Off Shield" is a solid, clear barrier made of Plexiglass-like material. Attached to the Crimson's Cooper helmets, the shield turns the puckster's headgear into a motorcycle helmet...
Like a windshield, a face shield is prone to fogging up or shattering. The shield's manufacturer, International Forums, Inc.--never a company to let fog grow on its masks--has solved those problems by treating the shield with polycarbonate for strength and with an anti-fog inner coating...
Freshman forward Eddie Krayer notes the mask's only nagging problem: "It's really hot inside the shield. There's only a couple of holes to breathe through [near the bottom]. It's a big deal, because you're used to getting...
...fresher Canaletto than his view of the Thames from Richmond House, for instance, or a more precocious early Rubens than his enormous, little- known portrait of the Marchesa Caterina Grimaldi from Kingston Lacy, or such a drop-dead showpiece of neoclassical metalwork as John Flaxman's silver- gilt Shield of Achilles, based on Homer's description of the "wonderful shield" wrought by Hephaestus in the Iliad...