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...believes Cornell's hockey team is nine goals better than Harvard's, nor that the Crimson can't compete with an all-Canadian squad, but many have been sucking sour grapes for some time over Big Red Coach Ned Harkness's recruiting tactics. Probably prompted by this discontent, the ECAC last week adopted a rule previously in effect for NCAA championships: any foreigner attending college here loses a year of varsity eligibility for each year he has competed in his own country over...
Also at the ECAC meeting, it was interesting to note that Samborski was the only Ivy athletic director to vote to limit football substitutions. Harvard, which personally has the biggest, deepest, and most talented squad in the League, would seem to have the most to gain from unlimited substitution. He explained his vote by saying that some of the players he had talked to wanted to play both ways...
Junior Bill Hinch and Darrel Abbott played second defense as sophomores last season, but both can be beaten. Mike Hyndman, a big 23-year-old sophomore plays left on the second defense and has posed a strong scoring threat, with three goals and four assists in the two ECAC encounters. Pairing with him is a former forward, Wayne Decker...
Columbia's recent decision to withhold individual statistics from the ECAC bureau was a wise move in the same direction. Statistics may be kept for the internal operations of the coaches, but releasing them to higher authorities puts an undue, irrelevant pressure on individual performance that is out of keeping with the nature of team sports. Harvard should follow suit...
...best to set up the first all-East NCAA final in 18 years. It was the third showdown between the two teams: in the Arena Christmas Tournament finale they let the marbles lie with a 3-3 tie. Cornell picked up some of them with a 4-3 ECAC Tournament win last week, then took them all on the 45-minute ride back to Ithaca with a convincing 4-1 win Saturday night...