Bruins Belt Sextet, 9-2, For First Win in Watson

Harvard got its new Ivy League hockey season off to a rather inauspicious start last night against Brown. In other words, the Crimson got clobbered.

Brown won its first game ever in Watson Rink and scored more goals than any other Bruin team ever has against Harvard in chalking up the 9-2 rout.

The Bruins' great speed enabled them to swarm all over the Harvard defensive gone for most of the game. The Crimson's slow and sloppy offense meanwhile could rarely mount a sustained attack.

The low quality of Harvard's defense is indicated by the fact that Brown scored eight of its nine goals from within ten feet of the Crimson net. Henry Manley scored three times and Terry Chapman twice for the visitors, while the Harvard "heroes" were its goal-scorers, Pete Waldinger and Jorge Gonzales.

Crimson attempts to play offensive hockey in the first period backfired as the Bruins continually used their speed to get free behind the Harvard defense. Their first goal, their only pretty one of the night, came at 7:34, as Bruce Darling sprung Chapman open with a 30-foot pass.

After Waldinger tied the score at 8:10 on sharp passes from John Daly and Baldy Smith, Brown reeled off six straight goals before Harvard's Gonzales connected in the third period on a cross-ice pass from Kenny Burnes.

The first three goals off this string all were the result of the Crimson defense's inability to clear the puck from in front of goalie Wade Welch. In all three cases, Brown forwards found themselves unguarded in front of the Crimson net with the puck, and didn't give Welch a chance.

Leo Bryant set up the next two Bruin goals, in the second period, by winning face-offs in front of Welch and sending the puck over to one of his wings. In the final period, Welch's failure to prevent rebounds, along with his defense's boring inability to clear the puck, gave Brown all its last three tallies.