The Crimson iceman looked tired from then marathon efforts at Cornell the night before.

"It's nice to win when you don't play well." Cleary said. "We showed some courage, some chutzpah, in coming back.

"The game last night look a lot more out of us than we thought."

Harvard's 138 minutes of hockey in the course of the two overtime contests would take a lot out of any one.

Exhaustion

In Saturday's game, after a furious second period that saw the teams tally seven times, the Crimson held a 5-4 advantage.

After almost 19 scoreless minutes of the third period. Cornell's Duanne Moeser gunned home a puck that had squatted into the left circle. The two exhausted squads battled to a scoreless standstill in overtime.

Blair stopped a flurry of good Cornell shorts early in the over time stanza.

At 3:50 of the 10 minute sudden-death extra period, Crimson freshman Lane McDonald stole the puck from Moeser and broke in alone on Cornell goalie Doug Dadswell.

MacDonald stayed wide on the left wing and as Dadswell moved out, fired a low shot that clanged off the opposite post.

"He's pretty posed freshman," said Crimson Coach Bill Cleary. "But he took a shot from a bad angle, rather than going in [to the net]."

A few minutes later, Crimson Captain Brad Kwong hooked down a Cornell skater who seemed reads to scoot free on a breakaway. But referee Harry Amman didn't call the penalty.

"I was upset that the official didn't make the hooking call." Cornell Coach Fou Reyeroft said after the game.

"He clearly saw it. It showed a lack of courage."

Failing to call the penalty against the visitors in front of thousands of screaming Lynah may have been wrong, but it certainly was courageous.