Smith's Score in Third Period Nips Pesky B.U., 2-1

Baldy Smith scored his second goal with a little over three minutes remaining in the final period Saturday night to give Harvard a 2-1 victory over a scrappy Boston University hockey team.

For a while it seemed that, despite it's superior passing and skating, the varsity wouldn't be able to push over the winning goal. The Terriers kept the pressure on in the first half of the third period, forcing goalie Godfrey Wood to make a couple of close saves.

A penalty to B.U.'s Richard Green at 14:31 gave the Crimson an extra man for two minutes. The Terriers staved off a score, but seconds after the penalty was over, at 16:44, Smith took a pass from Bill Lamarche and poked it past goalie Glen Eberly for the winning score.

From the start, B.U.'s hustling, boisterous hockey seemed to upset the Crimson. With the game 24 seconds old, the Terriers' Mike Denihan was sent off for boardchecking, but aggressive forechecking by the B.U. forwards kept the puck in Crimson ice for most of the two minutes.

Harvard took advantage of a second B.U. penalty to score, however. With John McBride off the ice for slashing, Lamarche slammed a shot from the left side that Eberly kicked out. Smith was there for the rebound, however, and his goal made it 1-0 Harvard at 12:36 of the first period. Barry Treadwell also got an assist on the play.

B.U. tied it up five minutes later. Wood stopped a hard shot by Ed Connors, but Bob Smith drove the rebound into the nets as 17:15.

In the second period the Crimson missed several good chances to go ahead. Early in the period Lamarche had a good shot from 20 feet out, but he was wide to the left. With six minutes gone a hard shot by Ikauniks hit the post and bounced back. Six minutes later, with B.U. again a man short, a goal by Bill Fryer was nullified by an offside call.

Aside from these opportunities, neither team came close to scoring in the period. The Terriers played wide open, hard-charging hockey, but were unable to sustain an attack. Wood made only two saves all period long, compared to seven for Eberly. For the game, Wood had 14 saves, Eberly 26.

In the third period, Harvard coach Cooney Weiland mixed up his lines a little, benching Gerry Jorgenson and substituting Fryer in his place on the line with captain Tim Taylor and Ike Ikauniks.

Close forechecking by Taylor and Ikauniks kept B.U. from getting past the red line in the last two minutes. They were aided by B.U.'s incorrigible Green, who returned from an interference penalty at 16:31, watched Smith score the winning goal, and went off again at 17:44 for boardchecking.

A crowd of 2072 filled Watson Rink for the game. The B.U. rooters made more noise, but Harvard won.

In the freshman game which preceded the varsity contest, the Terriers trounced Harvard, 9-1.