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During the third game--in the strangest aspect of the final--coach Roger Martin learned the hard way about an Ivy League rule technicality which prevented him from substituting in senior co-captain and all-Ivy Terry Trumbull at his usual center spiker position...
...Crimson's usual Eastern Collegiate League--preventing more than two players from alternating at the same position prohibited him from installing a rested Trumbull in where Dave Coatsworth and Kevin O'Sullivan had taken turns substituting. Princeton won just before Trumbull was going to play at another spiker position, he said...
...lack of a strong spiker proved critical to the Minutemen, as the Crimson returned their shots with ease throughout the confrontation...
...Crimson again came out steaming in the deciding game, grabbing a 14-10 advantage. But Albany refused to crumble, taking the next three points, and setting the stage for Harvard spiker Jon Tanaka...
...Harvard spiker Peter Graham characterised the match as "do or die" for the Crimson squad, because if Harvard lost to Springfield it would have had no chance to represent their division in the Collegiate Volleyball League playoffs...