Hockey Team Blasts Penn, 15-1

Harvard, predictably, massacred Penn's hockey team 15-1 Saturday night, but you couldn't expect a squad from the Ivy League's southernmost outpost to be any good at hockey. After all, does Miami have a curling team?

Pity was the best the Quakers could expect from the sparse crowd at the Watson Rink. Playing in their first Ivy League game ever, the Penn sextet was inept in every imaginable department.

The Harvard players took the opportunity to gorge themselves on goals and assists. Sophomore George McManama set a new Harvard scoring record for an Ivy game, racking up eight points on two goals and six assists. Both McManama and Jack Turco tied the Crimson record for assists in an Ivy contest, with a half-dozen apiece.

Kent Parrot tallied only a single assist, but it was enough to move him into ninth place on the Harvard all-time scoring list with 86 points. Robert P. McVey '58, and Myles Huntington '50, with 94 points each, are tied for seventh ahead of Parrot.

For the first ten minutes of the game, play on both sides was so incompetent that the only difference between the two squads was the color of their uniforms. A Penn player set the tone for the first period when he pounced on a loose puck five feet in front of the Crimson nets and lifted it over goalie Bob Higgins, over the goal, and over the glass barrier, narrowly missing a spectator in the top row beneath the scoreboard.

Dwight Ware finally broke the 0-0 deadlock for the Crimson by scoring on a feed from Turco at 11:59. Chris Gurry's long slap shot made it 2-0 for Harvard at 17:25, and Ware added another 30 seconds later off a rebound.

Chopping Wood

Penn's Bill Turner beat Higgins at 18:30 to make the score 3-1 at the end of the first period, but from then on Harvard riddled the Penn nets with the regularity (and the inspiration) of someone chopping wood.

Ware finished with a hat trick and a pair of assists. Captain Jack Garrity also scored three goals, plus a single assist. Bob Carr collected two goals for Harvard, and Ben Smith, Terry Flaman, and Bobby Bauer each chipped in with one.

Harvard's play throughout wasn't anything for impressionable young hockey players to be exposed to, although a team of Penn's caliber tends to drag its opponents down to its own level.

Harvard Coach Cooney Weiland tried yet another modification in his lineup, switching Parrot from wing on the Garrity line to center between Ron Mark and Pete Mueller, and moving Bauer from center into the spot vacated by Parrot. Presumably, Parrot feels more comfortable at center, where he played last year, than at forward.

Penn goalie Lloyd Smith absorbed 42 saves, while Higgins was called on for only 17. Harvard's record is now 6-5; Penn lost its fourth college game against three wins.