SLU enters the game with the number-one national ranking. Harvard takes it away in the following week's poll. The Crimson heads into exam break with a 15-0 record.

January 31: The Yale Whale springs a leak the week before the game, but it is patched in time for a 3-1 Eli upset.

Goalie Mike O'Neill slaps away 46 shots as the Crimson struggles after a two-week exam layoff.

Harvard kisses its number-one ranking goodbye.

February 3: The Crimson celebrates a visit from Mrs. Hartje, mother of junior Tod, with a 7-2 taming of the Princeton Tigers.

Bourbeau tallies three points, and senior Paul Howley grabs the limelight by falling on his face twice--but the second time he scores a goal.

February 4: Nine Harvard players net goals and almost everyone breaks some kind of scoring record as Army limps out of Bright Center, victims of an 11-1 drubbing.

The players worry about Monday's Beanpot semifinal.

Cleary worries about the quality of our national defense.

February 6: The third period lasts forever, but Harvard's smallest hockey player is bigger than life as the Crimson breaks a seven-year 'Pot jinx with a 5-4 triumph over B.C.

Goalie Chuckie Hughes is the local hero, batting away 19 third-period shots and talking live on the 11 o'clock news.

Harvard earns its first ticket to the Beanpot finals since 1981--but it's economy class and includes a two-day stop-over in upstate New York.

February 9: Harvard battles fish and other underwater creatures to claim a 4-2 win in Cornell's infamous Lynah Rink.

Mike Vukonich nets the game-winner 16:02 into the second period, and the bus rolls on.

February 10: Welcome to Starr Rink, where Colgate has not lost a game since last season.