"He's gotta to get skating, but he has great hockey sense," said Cleary.

Chalmers wasn't the only Crimson skater who was denied an apparent score.

At the end of the first period freshman Don Sweeney's shot seemed to go in high. In any event, the puck bounced right back out and the referee ruled no goal.

In a less controversial decision, Fusco netted the biscuit at the end of the first period. It seemed fairly clear that the clock had expired a second before the puck crossed the goal line.

Mission Impossible

Despite the ruling, Fusco had a fantastic night. The junior set MacDonald up just 33 seconds into the game. The freshman took the pass deep in the right circle and scored off Dartmouth goalie Mark Hoppe on a shot from a seemingly impossible angle.

MacDonald paid for the score when Dartmouth's Doug Weiss reinjured his shoulder.

Just 20 seconds later, Brien Jacobson beat Harvard goalie Grant Blair from the left point on Dartmouth's first shot.

Blair would not be beaten again, recording 23 saves on the evening.

MacDonald, back in the game despite the injury, took a Randy Taylor pass all alone five feet in front of the net on the power play and beat Hoppe for the first goal of the second period, and his second score of, the game.

Senior Billy Cleary got the next score off an end-to-end rush that started behind the Harvard blue line and culiminated when the defenseman beat Hoppe for the third Harvard goal.

Cleary has now scored in two consecutive games, a considerable achievement for a player who had three career scores before this streak.

"Two-hundred fect, end-to-end, I think they're going to give it to me more," Cleary said. "The kid" (the defenseman) was playing it all wrong, so I pulled left and put it between the defensemen.

"It's latent offensive talent rising up."

Coach Cleary was less exuberant than his son about the incident. "I got to tell him, 'Remember you're not Bobby Orr.' You gotta keep him down on the farm."