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Last season B.U. was forced to forfeit quite a few games due to one of the squad being declared ineligible. This year a District Court judge ruled favorably in the eligibility cases of Bill Buckton and Peter Marzo and the squad is back in business with Buckton leading all Terrier goal scorers with five...
...much for the comparisons of opponents. The real key to the game tonight will be the play of Terrier goaltender Kevin Walsh. If Walsh is having a good night, it will be easier for Harvard to pull a camel through the eye of a needle than to put the puck...
Anyone who has every been to a Boston University hockey game has had to put up with the Terrier band incessantly banging out the 'dum-dum-dums' followed by obnoxious fans screaming "go B.U." at the top of their collective lungs. Not only is the chant every other minute or so irritating but it's not even a B.U. original. It was first used at Boston College, but the Eagles fortunately let it fade out until B.U. picked it up as a sort of anthem...
...last time I had to listen to all this was the opening round of the Beanpot Tourney last season as the Dogs whipped the Crimson, 8-3. It was bad enough to sit in the grimy Garden and listen to the Terrier fans woop it up yelling "Go B.U." as Harvard trailed by five goals, but I had to listen to it during the ride home as well...
Hundreds of these Terrier fans are going to be at Watson Rink tonight, band and all, beating their little hearts out. The sad thing about it is that there will be little retaliation from the Harvard fans. With the demise of Section 18 and the large number of politely applauding alumni, it will be difficult to generate any significant noise with which to psyche out the B.U. hockey team or its fans. As one former Harvard player said about the Crimson's home ice advantage, "There are two types of games at Harvard, away games and neutral ones...