The Crimson cruised by a faltering Yale hockey team Saturday night with a 6-2 mauling that assures the varsity of at least a tie for the Ivy crown.

Crack defenseman Harry Howell, only 12 days past an appendectomy, played full time for Harvard.

Goals by captain Stu Forbes and Dave Morse gave the Crimson an early 2-0 lead, and a third score by Gerry Jorgenson quenched any Yalie hopes aroused when the Bulldogs crawled up to a 2-1 deficit late in the first period.

Dean Alpine, Jim Dwinell, and Dave Crosby added the remaining Crimson goals.

Completely outclassed, Yale got off only 12 shots all evening. During the game's last five minutes, when Godfrey Wood replaced Bob Bland in the Crimson goal, the Blue had considerable difficulty even getting the puck into the Harvard zone and made no shots whatsoever.

Forstmann Saves 45

The varsity's attack, on the other hand, forced Bulldog goalie Ted Forstmann to come up with 45 saves, many of them on shots made at point-blank range. Forstmann withstood perfectly a rather hectic minute and a half when overlapping penalties in the second period left his team two men short, but undid all his good work a few moments later with a leg-slide that kicked in a Crimson shot which otherwise would probably have missed the cage.

Forbes' goal broke open a 0-0 tie at 10:09 of the first period. Picking up a loose puck in the canter zone, he swung to the right of the surprised Yale defense and fired the puck into the lower left corner of the cage. Morse made the score 2-0 when at 14:12 he put in the rebound from shot by Bob Anderson. Jim Dwinell had an assist on the play.

Bulldogs Creep Up

Only 49 seconds later, Yale's David Crosby--not to be confused with Harvard's David Crosby--brought the Bulldogs up behind the Crimson 2-1, with a backhand from about 15 feet out.

A pass by Chris Norris to Forbes early in the second period set the stage for the Crimson's third goal. Forstmann blocked Forbes' shot, but lost control of the rebound. Jorgenson slapped it in at 4:00 flat.

Harvard scored twice more in the second period, and Yale once in the third when Tim Sargent jumped the Crimson defense at the Eli blue line. But the varsity tallied the last, and most flashy, goal: after being knocked to his knees, Dave Grannis poked the puck to Bill Beckett, who centered a set-up pass to Crosby for the score. The score by periods: Harvard  2  3  1  6 Yale  1  0  1  2