December 14, at Dartmouth's Thompson Arena, the Big Green's Jeff Leonard spoiled Blair's bid to tie the record by scoring with just three and a half minutes left.

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The new Cooper helmets that the Crimson has this year are fitted with a clear plastic visor and not a metal cage because of a new rule that allows the plastic facemasks.

Last year, several Harvard players suffered concussions playing with the old CCM helmets. After the head injuries, the players who had been hurt were fitted with Cooper helmets to give them extra protection.

This year the new helmets were purchased and so far the team has not had a single head injury.

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There was exciting action at the Clarkson St. Lawrence battle last weekend St. Lawrence Coach Mike McShane accused Clarkson goalie Jamie Falle of using an illegal stick. The referee checked and discovered that the netminder's stick was curved too much, so Falle was assessed a two-minute minor and 10-minute misconduct penalty.

St. Lawrence was already on the power play when Falle was penalized, but freshman goalie Scott Dominges held the Larries off and Clarkson skated to a 5-2 triumph.

In other action, ECAC-leading RPI swept two games from Michigan at Troy, N.Y...SLU's fine freshman goalie Scott Yearwood is out for "an indefinite period" with mononucleosis.

Brown will become the first American college hockey team to travel to China next season when the Bruins venture east for three weeks during China's annual ice festival...Cornell's Joe Nieuwendyk and Yale's Randy Wood are ECAC Players of the week. Nieuwendyk also claimed Ivy Player of the Week honors...Cornell swept Brown and Yale to move into fourth place in the ECAC with a 6-4 mark. Since the top four squads will host the quarterfinal playoff--contests, making the first four is crucial...In addition, with those two wins, Cornell moved into a tie for first place with Harvard in the Ivy League standings. Both clubs are 4-0-1 in the Ancient Eight...Army, after going 0-11 in its first year in Division 1, returned to a more familiar opponent last weekend and earned a 15-2 victory over Division 11 Buffalo State Saturday night.