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...Harvard power play unit, which had been unsuccessful in five previous tries, came out onto the ice. After about a minute of futility, and with a faceoff in the Yale zone. Crimson coach Bill Clearly made a daring move and pulled Petrovek in favor of a sixth skater, Leigh Hogan, giving the Crimson a 6-on-4 advantage with 1:12 to go. The gamble paid off, as ten seconds later, in one of those mad scrambles for the puck involving six or so players in front of the net, Hogan lifted out a backhand shot that tied the score...
Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein checked Taubman's manuscript and also weighed in with files on the boom in amateur hockey. Witnessing a Mites session in Rockland County, N.Y., Rosenstein was amazed to see six-year-old skaters wield a stick as surely as a crayon. Brooklyn-reared Rosenstein never played hockey as a boy; instead, he settled for watching the New York Rangers from cut-rate seats in the stratosphere of Madison Square Garden. Writer Taubman, though a seasoned Central Park skater and sometime impromptu stickman, claims he "really learned the game" from none other than Robert Lewis. Seems...
...last minute surge by the Crimson with the goaltender pulled in favor of a sixth skater, was turned aside and the game ended with Brown...
Harvard took an early 2-0 lead when Thorndike and Haley each scored from the edge of the faceoff circle in the first four minutes of play. Brown rallied before the period's end, however, as John Ahern tallied with Harvard down one skater and Bill Gilligan scored while the Bruins held a two-man advantage...
...referees disallowed a Brown goal at 6:07 of the second stanza because a Bruin skater was in the crease, and at 10:45 Thorndike rebounded home a Leigh Hogan shot to put the Crimson ahead...