Despite a brief collapse that almost cost it a well-deserved victory, the varsity hockey team remained undefeated Saturday, beating Boston University at the Arena, 6 to 5, on Amory Hubbard's overtime goal, his fourth of the night.

This was a rough, sometimes ragged, always exciting game. The teams were tied four times.

The first Terrier point, at 5:55 of the first period resulted from an unfortunate mixup in the crease. Richardson was buried under a Harvard defenseman, so nobody opposed Paul Cleary's easy tap. At 12:21, Hubbard tied it up from behind the cage, banging the disk off Kelley's skate.

Just 23 seconds later, Captain Walt Greeley fed Dick Clasby a perfect lead pass for the goal. The Hubbard-Greeley-Clasby line, incidentally, tallied all the Crimson markers. With 87 seconds to play John Burns tied the score on a good screon shot.

Hustling and pressing with the start of the second period, the Crimson regained the lead at 3:15 on a weird goal by Hubbard. Kelley had seemingly saved the right-alley drive, but then kicked the puck in. The Crimson held on until defenseman Jeff Coolidge went off for elbowing at 15:39. Half a minute later, star Terrier forward Dick Rodenniser bore in all alone from the right and slammed the disk past Richardson.

Hubbard poked the leading goal through a tangle of skates at 19:11, and Clasby put the Crimson ahead, 5 to 3, at 6:56 of the third period on a beautiful 30-foot backhander.

The Crimson seemed an easy winner at this point, but at 13:03 Jim O'Brien was penalized for boarding. Immediately thereafter, Richardson, although unable to see the shot saved sensationally on Dick Lee's hard drive. At 14:24 Ed Mrkonich was mysteriously penalized for what appeared to be oral interference with the upraised blade of Dick Lee's stick.

Down two men, the Crimson allowed Paul Whelan to score from a scramble nine seconds later. Rodenhiser and Ned Almy staged a light wrestling bout at 14:48. Both were banished. The manpower count was now 5 to 4, B.U. leading, because according to the rules, Almy didn't serve his penalty until O'Brien's expired.

B.U. kept trying, and at 15:54 defense man Chuck Tutuny pasted a fine long shot home. Neither team could keep up a sustained attack after that.

With the start of the overtime period, the Crimson milled dangerously around the B.U. cage, but couldn't get a shot off. The Terriers then had their vain chance. At 2:18, Greeley dug the puck out of a crowd at the blue line, passing to Hubbard alone on the left. No one was close to the little forward as he skated in and scored easily