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Later in the first stanza, the Quincy defense and two timely delay-of-game penalties defused a South House threat (that's threat as in second and two at the three), to keep within striking distance...
More than perhaps any other sport, momentum controls field hockey. Harvard had the momentum entering the second half, and almost doubled its margin two minutes into the stanza when Pew clanged a low liner off the post from eight feet...
Then, the scoreless tie at the end of the first stanza starts to make more sense, and the 4-0 final tally becomes eminently reasonable...
...third stanza Harvard could only manage one goal to MIT's two, and their fourth-quarter comeback fell short despite scores by Bill Atkinson, John Fisher, and Fasi...
...second half highlighted the play of a rapidly improving Harvard backfield. With the opening of the second stanza, the Cornell offense took the action to a slumbering Harvard squad, and for the first time pushed the ball into the Crimson end. Some timely play by fullback John Duggan and Peter Sergienko defused the threat and goalie Peter Walsh took care of what little the backfield let through with a couple of spectacular saves...