Track and Hockey Teams Both Win Easily

Harvard's hockey team had three full weeks to think about avenging its 5-4 overtime loss to-Penn in January, but it only needed eight minutes to put the rematch out of the Quakers' reach Saturday night at Watson Rink.

Calmly dominating a rough, physically-oriented contest, the Crimson dumped in a power-play goal at 8:13 of the first period, added two more within the next seven minutes, and breezed to a delightfully easy 8-0 victory to keep its hopes alive for home ice in the ECAC playoffs in March.

Crimson Riding High

The triumph, Harvard's fifth straight since the Beanpot tournament, gave the Crimson a firm lock on third place in the Ivy standings. In view of Boston College's surprise loss at St. Lawrence Saturday night, it also revived Harvard's chances for a fourth-place seeding for the playoffs-most likely pairing the Crimson with B.C., instead of Clarkson.

"We sort of expected this." said a resigned Penn sportswriter, and it was apparent that the Crimson did, too. From the opening minutes of play, the Quakers were in serious trouble, and Harvard, mindful of its humiliation last month, and the subsequent gloating in the Philadelphia newspapers afterwards, felt it had reason to run up the score if it could.

Penn Too Rough

Penn's rough, bothersome style of play, which had worked effectively last month to throw Harvard off its game, consistently put the Quakers a man down at crucial moments last weekend. The precision Harvard power play took immediate advantage of the situation.

Center George McManama scored the first power-play goal, Bob Havern added an even-up tally at 11:47, and Ron Mark contributed another power play score at 15:39 to put Harvard firmly in front, 3-0, after one period.

No Relief

And the barrage continued. Dan DeMichele knocked in a rebound on the power play at 0:50 of the second session, Joe Cavanagh blasted a 30-footer into the net, his 100th career point, at 4:50, and Jack Turco tallied a sixth at 10:56. By now, Quaker goaltender John Marks had been forced to kick out 41 of his 55 saves. Harvard goaler Bruce Durno, well on the way to his first career shutout, had only stopped 13.

In the third period, DeMichele added his second power-play goal at 8:04, and with little more than a minute remaining. In the game Tom Paul contributed an eighth.