Upsetting Ivy strongman Cornell and Brown on successive games was a tall order for the Harvard hockey team, and last night the Crimson played for below that order and farther below Saturday's peak as it meekly succumbed to the Bruins, 4-1.
For the first 20 minutes it looked as if Harvard might once again combine good fortune and hustle to outscore an enemy who was controlling the play, but the hopes were flattened one minute after Dennis McCullough tied the score at 1-1.
Steve Bettencourt took advantage of confusion in the defense to put Brown back on top at 12:19, and 20 seconds later Tom Coakley's slap shot deflected into the goal off a Harvard skate.
The Crimson was demoralized, but not out. That came with 7 seconds left in the period, when Bob Gaudreau's shot hit chip Scammon skating across the crease and bounced past helpess Bill Fitzsimmons for the Burins' fourth goal of the period.
Both teams just went through the motions in a listless third period. Harvard had become frustrated by Brown's impenetrable collapsing defense, led by All-American Gaudreau, and only Jack Garrity came close to scoring three Brown penalties.
The first period was scoreless, thanks mainly to the goaltending of Fitzsimmons and Brown's Dave Ferguson. The Crimson, spent most of the time in its own ice and successfully killed thre penalties, with Parrot's time-consuming stick handling prompting the biggest cheer of the period.
Wayne Small opened the scoring for Brown eight minutes into the second period, capitalizing on a scramble in front of the cage which drew Fitzsinmons out of position.
The first line, which mounted Harvard's only sustained atack in the first period, pressed again to deadlock the game at the 10-minute mark. Parrot took the puck from Waldinger, skated away from the goal and then angled an easy pass behind him to McCullough she was clear 12 feet in front of Ferguson.
But less Can two minutes later, the doof caved in and the Crimson never bothered to get up.
The freshman and JV teams fared better than the varsity, scoring 5-3 and 5-2 victories, respectively, over their Bruin counterparts.
Brown should have little trouble wrapping up second place in the Ivy League, with only Princeton. Yale, and Dartmouth--they Ivy's second division--remaining on the Bruin schedule. Harvard will finish third if it beats Princeton next week and splits its two Saturday Games with Yale.
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