Sextet Muzzles Huskies With Late Surge, 9-5

The varsity hockey team, behind 5 to 4 with but thirteen minutes left to play, suddenly went on a scoring binge, tallied five times and dumped Northeastern 9 to 5 in the feature attraction at the Arena Wednesday night. The hardy few who snubbed the impending exams to attend were treated to the sixty most violent minutes of hockey seen on Arena ice this winter.

A pair of sophomores, Joe Kittredge and Phil Clark were outstanding for the Crimson. Third line mainstay Kittredge scored three times, twice in the wild final period, to pace the team in that department, and goalie Clark made some thirty saves, four of which were impossible.

Physical Contact

The game had its bizarre aspects, the most important of which was the tremendous fury of play. A whistle but thirty seconds after the opening faceoff found Dave Key and Huskie goalie Howell resting uncomfortably inside the Northeastern nets.

Shortly after the start of the second stanza Jack Carman slid head first into the boards behind the Northeastern goal and was put out of action for the rest of the period. Later, wing Bill Garrity and Huskie Captain Deke Kerrivan astounded the crowd with twenty foot headlong slides into the boards.

There were a tremendous number of checks thrown, mostly by Carman and Al Key, and a multitude of spectacular collisions. But there were surprisingly few penalties, though some observers claimed the penalty lack was due to lax officiating. No sentences were meted out by the referees at all during the opening session, and but one in the final twenty minutes. In between, however, various ever-eager gentlemen, mostly Harvards, resided in the little wooden chair next to the scorekeeper.

A second phenomenon of the game was the gay abandon with which North eastern coach Herb Gallagher inserted his three lines. At no time during the game was there any guarantee that the Huskie first line would be replaced by the second. Nor did the makeup of the forward walls remain constant. Northeastern ace Jim Bell appeared as a cenlor, wing, and defenseman. Unfortunately the variety of Bell's roles had no damaging effects on his scoring skill and he collected three of Northeastern's five goals.

49 Minutes of Tense Hockey

Until eleven minutes and four seconds before the game's end there was never more than a one goal difference between the two teams. Northeastern was ahead three times, and the score was tied five times before the Crimson's third period goal barrage sewed up the game for Harvard.

But the hockey team seemed to have a definite edge all the way. Most of the time the puck was in Northeastern territory, and only in the second period, when the Crimson seemed to have a permanent lease on the penalty box. In the third stanza, the varsity's edge became obvious. They took some forty shots to Northeastern's ten and out-skated them as well.

Particularly impressive was the work of the first line on rebounds, and Bill Garrity's goal came when he slapped in the rebound after a shot by Dave Key had been blocked. Line Score Period  I  2  3--t HARVARD  2  2  5--9 NORTHEASTERN  1  3  1--5