Word: tonights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tonight's Yale game, at 8:30 in the Boston Arena, is somewhat of an anticlimax. The varsity has wrapped up the NCAA bid and the Ivy League Championship, so a loss to the Blue at this juncture would only cause some red faces on the selection committee. But as Weiland commented last night, "It is a Yale game and no one wants to lose to them...
...should have little trouble with the Elis. The varsity has already beaten them once this year, 6-2, in the abbreviated Yale rink, and the game was a good deal more one-sided than the score indicates. It will be interesting, however, to see how the Crimson will do tonight, playing on its own "home" ice, and under little of the usual late-season pressure...
...almost impossible to evaluate the Yale defense, for against the Crimson last weekend it spent the whole evening in and around the Yale crease doing its best to stop the varsity's shots. Captain Dick Starratt and Bruce Smith are expected to start again tonight...
While the Elis' first line of Tom Goodale, Ed McGonagle, and Harvey Mell showed relatively little against the varsity down at New Haven, it is one of the best in the League and could give the Crimson defense trouble tonight. Gene Scott, George Robinson, and Tom Crosby will start on the Blue's second line...
...varsity lineup will remain the same tonight as Captain Bob Cleary will start on the first line along with Lyle Guttu and Terry O'Malley. Bruce Gillie and Bob McVey are two sure starters on the second line and it is expected that Dick Fischer, Mike Graney, and Dave Vietze will all see some service in the third position. Dan Ullyot and Dick McClaughlin will alternate at defense with Bobby Owen and Les Duncan, while Harry Pratt will start in the goal