Basketball, Hockey Teams Lose to Columbia, Northeastern

Northeastern turned back the Crimson varsity sextet, 5 to 1, in a sloppy game last night at the Arena, and Harvard, is still seeking its initial win of the second half of its season. This loss, the second in as many days for Cooney Weiland's boys, even the series with the Huskies at one-all, and brought Harvard's record to nine and five.

The Crimson skaters couldn't get going. After Joe Kittredge drew first blood early in the opening period, the Huskies dominated the play for the rest of the game, and Harvard seemed to lose both spirit and fight. Although Husky netminder Ray Picard kicked out 27 shots, 13 more than his rival Nate Corning, the Crimson passing and stickhandling was sloppy and uncoordinated in the Northeastern zone. And whenever they did get a chance at the goal, Picard starred at stopping the puck.

Only 17 Shots

The Huskies had only 17 shots at Corning, but they made the best of their opportunities. Defenseman Buddy Purcell sank the first one for the Huskies unassisted a little over a minute after Harvard's goal. He faked one defenseman out of position, and lifted it over Corning's stick from 20 feet out. Dick Smith made it 2 to 1 by converting Tom Madden's pass at 16:30, and Bob Byrne slipped in a rebound off defenseman Dusty Burke tow minutes later. Just before the end of the period Ron Holden slapped in a shot around Corning on passes from Bob Rochon and Jim Champion.

In the second frame the Crimson seemed to come alive momentarily, but four penalties in six minutes slowed the attack. Harvard kept pressing when at full strength, but the combination of poor passing and Picard's goal-tending kept it scoreless.

Score Again

Early in the last period Northeastern returned to the offensive, and Campion took a pass at his own blue line and made a solo dash against no defensemen at all, scoring on a high lift. During the rest of the game the Crimson kept pressing, but never could click.

Kittredge raised his point total another point to 37 when he backhanded in a Lew Preston pass. Hal Marshall also got credit for an assist on the play.

Harvard looked tired and sloppy, partly from playing two games on consecutive nights, and partly because of the recent exam period layoff. The next game is against Dartmouth at Hanover on Saturday.

The summaries:

Harvard (1)--Corning, g; Wykoff, rd; Bliss, ld; White, c; Anderson, rw; DiBlasio, lw.

Northeastern (5)--Picard, g; Connelly, rd; LeFort, ld; Doherty, c; Bell, rw; Byrne, lw.

First Period--Scoring: Kittredge (H) (Preston, Marshall), 3:02; Purcell (N) (unassisted), 4:14; Smith (N) (Madden, DeVarennes), 16:30; Byrne (N) (unassisted), 18:08; Holden (N) (Rochon, Campion), 19:29. Penalties: none. Saves: Corning, 5; Picard, 6.

Second Period--Scoring: none, Penal- ties: McNamara (N) (handling puck), 5:00; Marshall (H) (cross-checking), 8:09; O'Brien (H) (board-checking), 8:49; Burke (H) (interference), 10:13; Burke (H) (charging), 14:12; McNamara (N) (checking in center zone), 16:42; LeFort (N) (charging), 18:46. Saves: Corning, 3; Picard, 11.

Third Period--Scoring: Campion (N) (Connelly), 3:24. Penalties: Holden (N) (slashing), 8:54; DiBlasiio (H) (board-checking), 11:57. Saves: Corning, 4; Picard, 10.

Total Saves: Corning, 12: Picard, 27