Harvard wasted little time in the sudden-death period. Ware took two shots and Charlie Scammon got off a pair which Leu stopped. Then Garrity drilled a neat pass to Murphy at the right corner of the crease. Leu went for Murphy, but the puck went to Smith at the other corner. With the whole net to shoot at from three feet, Smith easily sent the weary skaters to the showers.
B.U. - Cornell
They all came quickly back, though, to see "the Notre Dame-Michigan State of college hockey." The Arena, which had had plenty of empty seats the first two nights, was S.R.O. for this one, and not much of that. The difference on the ice was apparent, too, from the opening face-off. Both games Wednesday had been lethargic, and in their 6-1 and 5-1 wins on Thursday B.U. and Cornell hardly looked like the teams that went furiously at one another Friday.
With Mike Doran practically melting the ice and freezing the Terriers, the Big Red controlled the early play and carried a 3-2 lead into the third period. But B.U.'s strength showed through in the third period, and the game went into overtime, tied 3-3. The 5,000 fans and 1,000 people from Cornell, many of them watching their sixth game in three days, were going wild as midnight came and went.
When neither team scored in the ten-minute overtime, coaches Ned Harkness and Jack Kelley met at mid-ice and, amid screams of "More More More," agreed to a second sudden-death period to determine a winner.
Ryan and Dryden, who were named co-winners of the Tournament's Most Valuable Player Award, stood up to the tremendous pressure and kept their goals inviolate for another ten minutes.
The two teams went off the ice with 1's appended to their 11-0 records and the fans went home, weary from 5 1/2 hours of hockey, to wait for the final verdict, which will probably come ten weeks hence in the ECAC Tournament.