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...BU didn't exactly blow Harvard off the ice in the first period, but the Crimson's disorganized defense, erratic passing, and maladjusted coordination between defense and forwards produced the same result...
...Crimson, meanwhile, was doing very little right. At the 14-minute mark. Durne barely stuffed a BU breakaway, and at 16:05 Terrier captain Larry Davenport, hassled by Harvard's Skip Freeman, shored a centering pass into the Crimson net from point-blank range to make the game...
...Harvard started moving in the second period. Joe Cavanagh slid a goal past BU netminder Tim Regan at 3:45 from a scramble in front, and suddenly fenacious checking was holding BU at bay. After two periods it was only 3-1, and the Crimson was hassling the Terriers in the same manner that had worked so effectively against Cornell last month. A swarming attack, intelligent defense, and a spectacular game by Durno were doing the rest...
...Harvard's joy was short-lived. At 17:35, BU's Dick Toomey knocked a deflection past Durno to make it 4-3, and at 19:09 Davenport added a fifth into the open Harvard net. It was strangely reminiscent of a night just one year ago, when Harvard did it all, the same...
...late October, when the Communist troops began to mass around Bu Prang and Due Lap, American commanders warned Colonel Vo Van Canh, the commander of the 23rd division, that they would give him air and artillery support, but that he would have to handle the ground fighting himself. Under personal pressure from President Nguyen Van Thieu to seize the initiative, Canh ordered the 23rd to ferret out the North Vietnamese before they could mount an attack. In a series of daily skirmishes, Colonel Canh's troopers swept the wooded ridge lines of the Central Highlands, preventing the enemy from...