Cornell Hands Icemen Their First Setback, 3-1

ITHACA, N Y--The Harvard hockey team's amazing early-season winning streak came to an end last night at Cornell's Lynah Rink before 4100 hostile Big Red fans.

Cornell took the important Ivy contest, 3-1. The night before at Colgate the icemen stated to a 7-4 victory, so this weekend leaves them with a 5-1 record.

Last night in Ithaca, the Big Red showed from the start that its style had not changed despite having a new coach this season. Their coach for the past decade, Dick Bertrand, left after last season, having molded Cornell into the Philadelphia Flyers of the ECAC. It was no different last night a clear match-up of Big Red brawn and very heavy hitting versus Crimson quickness and skating.

In the first few minutes, the home team took a quick lead, with defenseman Steve In gle hart slamming one home from the point right off a face off and with the Big Red pummeling every Crimson jersey in sight. But after blueliner Mike Schafer put Burke on the ice for several minutes with a devastating check, the Crimson started skating and turning away from the Big Red hits.

The visitors evened it up quickly on a power play when Corneil goale Darren Eliot wandered too far out to handle a deflection off Jim Turner's skates. But the Big Red went ahead for good when a weak shot by right wing Pete Natyshak, which goalie Grant Blair seemed to have covered up, trickled under death the Harvard netminder.

The big blow to Harvard official middle 20 was another bulldozer of a Cornell check, this one by Peter Gage which put Scott Fusco out of the game.

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Cornell's forwards turned to the attack in the final stanza With less than seven minutes left, right wing Larry Tobin stated down the right side, found his left wing Geoff Derwin unguarded across the Lee and Derwin smashed one from about 45 feet past Blatt.

The final minutes were just a show for the maniacal fans, who watched Harvard shoot with increasing desperation against the red posterior. The only highlight for Harvard in the closing minutes was a superhuman effort by Mitch Olson defending the open net after the goalie was pulled.

Saturday night at Colgate the iceman faced and passed one of the crucial test for success ful teams playing below par and still pulling out a win Much of the credit had to go to Colgate netminder Jeff Cooper, who whiffed five of the 16 shots he faced in the first period.

Three times Cooper was victimized by the line of Dave Burke, Greg Chalmers, and Shayne Kukulowicz, Burke sorting once and right wing Kukulowicz twice.

With five goals separating the teams at the first intermission, there was uninspired hook key the rest of the way Red Raider Keb Isel more did his bit to make it took competitive, notching a hat truck in the second stanza But the Burke Chalmers Kukutownzone line struck again, scoring twice in the periods thirteenth minute.

As in the season opening win over Dartmouth by the same Scott freshman Crimson goalie Dick McEvoy faced a dearth of shots in the early going and was shaky versus Iselmoe's attack later in the game Over all, said assistant Coach Ronn Tomassoni. "We really didn't skate well enough to win on most night. But it's nice to have one line pick up the slack when your others are off."

Harvard takes to the ice again in the un-measurably Triendlier confines of Blight Center Wednesday night against Brown.

THE NOTEBOOK: Dave Burke's injury was a partially torn ligament He may be out six to eight weeks.