Crimson Hockey Varsity Overwhelms Tigers, 7-4

After leading 4-0 at the end of the first period, the Crimson hockey team coasted to a 7-4 victory over Princeton Saturday night at the Tigers' Baker Rink.

A pair of goals by Bill Beckett, both made in the game's opening three minutes, started a Harvard attack that continued steadily until the outcome of the contest was no longer in doubt.

Jim Dwinell, Crocker Snow, Ted Ingalls, Stu Forbes, and Bob Anderson added the remaining Crimson scores.

A nine-hour bus ride, with stops for meals and repairs, did not appear to hamper Harvard's performance. The varsity had originally chartered a DC-6 for the trip, but a flight engineers' strike at 3 a.m. Saturday killed all hope for going to Princeton by air.

The varsity and freshman swimming teams and the fencing team had planned to go on the same plane.

All four teams rode to Princeton in two houses, leaving Cambridge about 11 a.m. and arriving on the Tiger campus about 6:30 p.m. The hockey game began shortly after nine.

Princeton's top goalie, Barry von Gornig, broke a finger in the Tigers' pre-game shooting warm-ups, and could not play all evening. Sophomore Bill Hill took his place, and after 1:22 of the game, with his team a man short for a tripping penalty, let in the first of Beckett's two goals.

Dwinnell and Anderson had assists on the play, and before Coonoy Weiland changed lines. Beckett and Dwinell, with an assist from Bob McCoy, scored again--at 2:05.

Although it seemed likely that with Harry Howell unable to play Welland would use only three defensemen, he aspired McCoy with Dave Johnston regularly during the evening.

Dwinell put Harvard ahead 3 to 0 at 9:13 on a perfect pass from Anderson up almost two-thirds of the rink. Dwinell took the puck at Princeton's blue line, removing at full speed. He slipped behind the surprised Tiger defensemen and scored from about eight feet out.

The varsity's final first-period goal came at 9:46, on a shot by Snow with assists from Forbes and Chris Norris.

Play degenerated considerably during the rest of the game. Although controlling the puck most of the time, Harvard got off only 13 more shots (three of which scored). Princeton was never able to climb closer to the varsity than a 4-2 deficit midway through the middle period.

For the game, Bob Bland had 20 saves and Godfrey Wood three in the Crimson nets. Hill had 21 saves for Princeton.

The victory preserved Harvard's hold on first place in the Ivy League. The Crimson's League record is now 6-0-0; second-place Yale, by virtue of a 5-4 win over Dartmouth Saturday, has a 5-1-0 mark.