"I got it, didn't I?"
"Yeah, but I can't see what the hell is going on."
Dean Munro, standing behind the Columbia nets, was fascinated by the verbal battle, and added to what must surely be the talkingest game on record by giving Witt a short account of his own days as a goalie.
When Tadhg Sweeney was moved to an interior line position late in the campaign, a grim, unspoken battle took place in each game. The rugged Sweeney's stock in trade was charging the goalie--a perfectly legal maneuver, as long as the netminder does not have control of the ball. For a while in each first period, it was a question of whether the enemy goalie was going to yield to Sweeney's insistent pounding or play a charging game. In both the Brown and Yale contests, the goalie chose to hang back; each time, this was a vitally important factor for the Crimson.
The varsity rarely was able to get itself "up" for contests with non-Ivy squads. The team's three ties came at the hands of Amherst, Williams, and Columbia. (Columbia's soccer squad is not in the League as yet; it may be next fall.) When the Crimson did get excited about these mid-week encounters, it was usually over some real or imagined scoring record. In the season's opener against Tufts, the varsity tallied six goals after its customary slow start; since the 1958 team had also notched six scores, the Crimson went all out for a seventh, which never materialized.
After a prolonged skein of low-scoring contests, the Crimson met Wesleyan near the end of Ocotber. Entering the last period with a 1-0 lead, the varsity proceeded to score three times in the fourth quarter. Even the first tally was the cause for mild elation, since it was the first of the season for Sweeney, who certainly had one coming. Dick McIntosh led off the fourth-period scoring, followed two and one-half minutes later by Sam Rodd on a head-in. After Rodd's goal, the varsity bench went wild; the previously injured Marsh McCall led the celebration of this