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Yale is exceptionally strong at the face-off position where All-Ivy Tom Preston will be a major headache for the Crimson's Jim Kilkowski. If Harvard is to win, the lighter and smaller Kilkowski will have to shut off the Yalie's patented scoring sweeps, "which make the Blue go," according to Harvard coach Bruce Munro...
Once again, it was Nicosia who started Harvard moving as he snared a pass from Ince on the opening face-off of the second half and broke down the middle of the field to score. After that it was all Harvard with the Crimson running the score to 9-4 by the end of the third period...
...Face-Off. Hockey's version of the jump ball in basketball, in which the referee drops the puck between two opposing players to initiate play. Besides the blue center circle, eight red face-off dots are positioned at strategic points about the rink to get the puck back into action after a referee's whistle stops the game. Among the most common: the "end-zone face-off," which usually occurs after a goalie blocks a shot at the net, and the "last-play face-off," which takes place at the point where play has been stalled...
...neutral (center ice). When a team is on the attack, the puck must cross the opponent's blue line ahead of all offensive players (to prevent them from lurking around the goal, waiting for a length-of-the-ice pass); otherwise play is stopped and reopened with a face...
Harvard, with a good effort by Chip Otness, killed the second period's only penalty. But as 10:16, Diercks couldn't handle the bouncing puck off a face-off and Dan Lodboa raised the margin...