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...most distressful college that has been seen since Dotheboys Hall. By confession and the cane, the clerical masters rule a cowed proletariat of boys and a middle class of lay masters. Dev may hand out "nippers" (cane on the hand) to his boys when they muck up a stanza from Shelley's To a Skylark or cannot explain the meaning of the Feast of Lupercal (a Roman fertility rite*), but he walks in fear of Father Alphonsus McSwiney, Dean of Discipline, a clerical careerist and bully whose belief it is that "no boy [is] stouter than a good cane...
...second Eli goal, which opened the third stanza scoring at 1:36 and tied the score at 2-2, was a one-man breakaway...
...Crimson went right into its fast offensive play in the first period without taking any time to warm up. Jones totalled 16 saves in this stanza before Bob McVey scored at first at 19:04 after a blue-line shot from Bob Owen...
...second period was most disappointing to the Crimson scorers. Jones had only 15 saves in this stanza, but all were spectacular ones. Once, the first line of Cleary, Lyle Guttu, and Paul Kelley set up a play that included seven straight passes and worked the puck right into the crease without scoring. Guttu came in so close on this play that he knocked the cage loose...
Ironically, the Jumbos were the first to score in the opening period and held a 1-0 lead until Cleary began to score at 12:41. After that, it was 5-1 after the first stanza and then 10-1 after the second...