Saturday was an evening of firsts for Harvard hockey fans as the Crimson sextet posted its first home win of the season with a 5-2 decision over Colby.

While Harvard goalie Bill Fitzsimmons put up a defensive wall in front of the nets, Gordie Price and Pete Waldinger provided the offensive punch. Price picked up one goal and assisted in two others, and Waldinger had a hand in three of the five Crimson goals scored.

By the middle of the third period, the effects of the exam period break were obvious, as the game slowed to a snail's pace. By this time, however, the outcome had already been decided, and the last ten minutes seemed merely an effort by both teams to run out the clock.

The game began with a flurry. And after just three minutes Frank Mackey, taking a pass from Baldy Smith, had scored the game's first goal--his first of the season. Three minutes later, Kenny Burnes fired a shot past Colby's sophomore goalle, Leland Potter, and Harvard was off to a 2-0 lead.

Traffic Jam

Colby then scored twice before the Crimson's Bobby Clark, taking advantage of a traffic jam in front of the Colby nets, drilled a high shot past Potter at 15:26 of the second period. This was the beginning of the Price-Waldinger scoring binge, each man picking up an assist on this goal by Clark.

Price scored early in the third period, with an assist to Waldinger, and each assisted on Eddie Zellner's goal just one minute later which wrapped up the scoring for the evening.

As usual, Harvard's main difficulty came in clearing the puck from their own zone. Time and time again an errant pass would be picked off by a Colby defender, and the Crimson would have to scramble into a defensive set-up in order to prevent a goal.