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Marked by good defense and what Crimson coach James Hutchinson called "disappointing refereeing," the game nearly broke out into a fight in the second period when a Harvard iceman hipchecked a Dartmouth skater...
...they were seeing "a sports exclusive," "a really fantastic shot," and "superb coverage." Nonetheless, it was the picture that told the story, and during the first two days it was mostly a sad tale of the young U.S. hockey team being trounced by the Czech and Swedish teams. U.S. Skater Peggy Fleming cut a fine figure on the ice, but about the only good thing the announcers could say about the U.S. hockey team came during a skirmish with a Czech player: one of the Americans got "a light left jab in there...
...Fleming, 19, a raven-haired Colorado College coed, the effort was all worthwhile when she stepped onto the winner's podium at Grenoble last week and heard played The Star-Spangled Banner for the first and perhaps only time in the 1968 Winter Olympics. "This feeling," said Figure Skater Fleming, "can never be shared-even by the richest people...
...strictly 24-carat. For two days, under the intense scrutiny of nine judges, she traced on the ice "paragraph loops," "rockers" and "brackets" (all variations on the basic figure eight) with such precise symmetry that by the end of the compulsory figures-which count for 60% of a skater's score-she had a virtually unassailable lead of 77.2 points over her closest competitor...
...hockey, Captain Jack Garrity has 30 points. Jack Turco, 29, and Kent Parrot, 26. Parrot needs only two more points to become the sixth Harvard player to reach 100 career points. It would be quite a wedding present for the Belmont skater if he gets them against St. Lawrence Saturday; his wedding is on Friday...