Word: stanza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although sloppiness and apathy was the name of Harvard's game for most of the first stanza, it was the missed power-play opportunities of the second period that aggravated the icemen the most...
...Crimson came back to close it to 37-33 at the intermission, prompting coach Frank McLaughlin to deliver a healthy spank to sparkplug Fine's rump as the squad entered the locker room. But Princeton quickly opened a ten-point lead in the second stanza, and the orangemen kept it there until the five-minute mark. And then they mopped...
...exacting second-year mentor was more concerned with Harvard's lethargic, turnover-plagued play in the nrst half of yesterday's 65-50 victory. Thanks to the heady 12-point opening stanza performance by All-Ivy guard Carry Curry, Harvard managed to scramble back from a seven-point deficit for a 31-31 knot at the half...
...second stanza, Captain Cook put Harvard in the lead for the first time in the contest with a power-play goal. "Barney" gathered in a pass from George Hughes--who had gotten the puck from John Cochrane on the point--skated out of the corner, looked to return a pass to Hughes, but then slipped in front of the cage to poke a backhand shot between the legs of Ed Arrington...
Defense versus defense, the third stanza showed hard forechecking on both ends of the rink. Only after Bruin coach Don Cherry pulled Cheevers could Buffalo's Gare race in for his second goal of the night...