Hockey Team Beats BU in 7-6 Upset

The varsity hockey team scored three consecutive goals in the last ten minutes of play at the Arena last night and upset highly regarded Boston University, 7 to 6. It was a superb exhibition of team play.

All but one of Harvard's goals came on perfectly executed pass plays. The defense checked back rapidly and body-checked savagely. There was none of the bunching and collisioning that marred the MIT game; the only people that got hit were the boys from BU, and when they got hit, they got hit hard.

Easily the outstanding player on the ice was goalie Johnny Chase, BU had the puck in Harvard territory much of the time and they were shooting constantly. The defensemen stopped a couple of dozen shots, but close to 40 got through and Chase blocked all but six. There were no easy saves.

Fine Goal Play

The excellence of his play in the goal can be seen from the fact that two scores were made when the Crimson was one man short, and two others were on double rebounds, when there was such a melee in front of the nets that no human being could have known exactly where the puck was.

In the offensive department, Bob DiBlasio, who had played defense against MIT and was switched Monday to third line center, scored three goals--the fourth, fifth, and winning Harvard markers.

The team opened and closed fast. It piled up an early three goal lead in the first 12 minutes with a set of three pass plays, one from Myles Huntington to Dave Abbot, another from Bill Garrity to Joe Kittredge, and the third from Huntington to Abbot again.

From then until 13:12 in the final period, the team hung on uneasily while BU scored all six of its goals. Harvard's only midgame goal came when DiBlasio bounced a pass off a Terrier defense-man's skate and into the corner of the cage.

Foverish Finish

But in the last seven minutes, the team ran wild. DiBlasio swiped the puck from a BU defenseman, skated through another one, and blasted a shot past the goalie from six feet out.

Two minutes later, defenseman Jack Carman cleared the puck from his own zone. As two Terriers converged on him at the BU blue line he passed to Doug Anderson; Anderson pulled the final defenseman out of position and then passed to Huntington, who beat goalie Bradley on another shot from six feet out.

Two more minutes of frantic hockey passed before BU coach Harry Cleverly decided to pull a fast one. He put on his first line against Harvard's third. For 30 seconds they put a sustained rush on the Crimson goal, and then wing Carl Timpson grabbed the puck at his own blue line and took a shot from 20 feet out at the BU cage. DiBlasio was in perfect position for the rebound and scored the final goal at 17:49.

The Harvard Summaries:

Goals--First period, Abbot (Huntington), 1:17; Kittredge (Garrity), 2:41; Abbot (Huntington), 11:55. Second period, DiBlasio (Minot), 17:46. Third period, DiBlasio (Unassisted), 13:12; Huntington (Anderson), 15:04; DiBlasio (Timpson), 17:49.

Penalties--First period, Carmen (holding); Garrity (boardcheck). Second period, Bliss (cross check). Third period, none.