Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were several encouraging aspects for Harvard's holiday performance, however. When the Crimson played well, it played very well, and in Montreal it was playing by Canadian rules, which prohibit two-line passing, and permit checking in any zone. Moreover, the Crimson's success with rough, physically-oriented squads had been limited this winter, and the loss of DeMichele deprived Harvard of badly needed size...
...Crimson, beginning to tire from the rough Canadian style, was experiencing unusual trouble clearing, and Toronto forwards, who managed only 15 shots on Durno in the first 40 minutes, bombarded him with 17 in the final period...
When one of the nine failed his service-aptitude test, the other eight insisted that the corps must take all or none. A second test produced a passing grade. They helped each other over some of the rough spots in boot training as members of Recruit Platoon 1055 at San Diego. When one of them stumbled into the formation of another unit and got the traditional pummeling, the others rescued him. They spent another six weeks in infantry training at California's Camp Pendleton, then came home together for a final round of parties and dates. Beneath their careless...