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...teams fought a hard game from the opening face-off. At 4:12 of the first period Harvard defenseman Ron Thomson received a two-minute penalty for forearm blocking. St. Nick's quickly moved into the Crimson end of the rink and when goalie Godfrey Wood carelessly left a rebound lying five feet in front of the net Mike Karin was quick to bang in the loose puck. Assists went to Jim Bostwick and Morris Cheston...
...captain Gib LaMotte, a pinched nerve, and the hottest game day of the season all played a part in the Yale lacrosse team's whopping 13 to 7 vicotry over the varsity Saturday. En route to their second Ivy defeat of the season, the Crimson stickmen lost face-off after face-off, neglected to pick up loose ground balls, failed to clear consistently, and suffered heavily in the 99-degree weather. The Bulldogs didn't seem to mind the heat...
Dartmouth came up with the first face-off of the afternoon, threw two quick passes, and was ahead 1-0 after just 17 seconds of action. Playing control ball, the Indians quickly ran the score to 3-0 by the ten minute mark of the first quarter. When the varsity failed to score with two Dartmouth players in the penalty box, members of the crowd started to leave for the baseball game...
Harvard seemed tense as it took the field for the vital game. Eighteen seconds after the face-off it was a goal behind as Princeton captain Phil Allen slamed a hard shot past goalie Gil Leaf. That was only the beginning...
Munro's midfield units moved fast and blocked hard throughout the contest. By the second half varsity middies were coming up with almost every ground ball and face-off. They fed attackmen to the tune of four goals on fast-breaking plays going the length of the field...