Word: defensemen
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...Smooth junior Jerry August and soph T.J. Connolly (2-9-11) make up the top blueline duo. The "Brook-line," manned by George Klapes and 6-ft., 3-in., 196-lb. Bruce Milton (3-15-18), both natives of that Boston 'burb, forms the second pairing. The defensemen specialize in setting up B.U.'s deliberate offense and getting the puck to the forwards. "I think we move the puck out of our own zone as well as anyone," says Parker...
...supporting cast, led by Eagle netminder Bob O'Connor--who matched Lau save for save--and including the Harvard defensemen, the Harvard forwards, the entire B.C. squad and the guy who drove the Zamboni, was equally spectacular, producing what Harvard coach Bill Cleary calls "an almost perfect hockey game...
Debbie Taft made a rink-long rush, faking around two Colby defensemen, only to have her backhand slide just wide. Sue Newell let go a wicked wrist shot, but a screened Mead got her stick on it at the last minute...
After a short Christmas break the team went West, but the offense stayed back East, as the Crimson fell twice to mediocre Western Michigan, 3-1 and 4-2. Two of the three Harvard goals were scored by defensemen...
...think," he said, "it would have been a whole different third period if we had gone with four defensemen the whole way, especially with the size and strength of some of their forwards. They wear you down...