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Gary Martin and Jay North started things off 6-23 into the game Martin drifted in on the left wing, then passed across to North who slid the puck by goalie Wally McDonough's left skate. Two minutes later, the Crimson found itself on the attacking end of a two man advantage Captain Ken Code responded with his first goal of the season, a slapshot from the center of the blue line that threaded its way untouched into the back...
Stressing his team's heavy forechecking Flaman said simply: "Our game plan was not to let Harvard skate." In the first meeting a couple of breaks provided the Crimson with the margin of victory...
...freshman, she almost immediately inherited the starting position when Harvard's goaltending corps were reduced to one. "I was very lucky, because I couldn't really skate yet," she recalls...
Cleary recalls first recognizing Code when he saw him skating around. "I said, 'Gee, that guy can skate pretty well, who's he?' and it turned out he could play hockey pretty well, too." Cleary supposedly mispronounced Code's name most of his first year at Harvard, until the player's father corrected the coach...
That was 1980. Now, as another Olympics looms, Lou Vairo watches an even younger bunch of Cinderella kids preparing to skate into Sarajevo in hopes of picking up the other glass slipper...