Sweeney's goal came only seven minutes after he had taken a solid hit behind the Harvard net. Sweeney had remained prone on the ice for a full minute while the crowd screamed, "Scrape him up."

The crowd--wild throughout the game--berated Cleary in the middle of the period with taunts of "The Coach is bald" and "The Coach is fat."

Cleary merely smiled and rubbed his head and stomach.

Taucher followed Sweeney's breakaway with an impressive breakaway of his own. Taucher, a fourth-line wing who has shared playing time this year with fellow sophomore Gerald Green, plucked a loose puck off the boards near the Cornell blue-line and watched it tumble toward the Red net.

The Cornell goalie came after the puck, but Taucher got to it first, skated past McInnis and flicked the puck into the barren net with four minutes left in the period.

MacDonald followed with his 12th goal of the year a minute-and-a-half later when he drove down the left side of the ice and, when almost parallel to the goalposts, flipped a shot into the upper right part of the Cornell net.

Cornell called time-out immediately after MacDonald's goal. And it helped.

With just under two minutes left if the period, forward Mark Major grabbed a loose puck in front of the Harvard net and punched a shot past Crimson goalie McEvoy.

The period did not end without controversy however. With the period almost finished, All-America Cornell center Joe Nieuwendyk slammed into the Harvard bench and began throwing punches at Crimson defenseman Butch Cutone. Cutone fought back, and both were assessed two-minute roughing penalties.

Cornell capitalized on a power-play late in the second period to narrow Harvard's lead to 3-2 Nieuwendyk controlled the puck of the right and flicked a pretty pass to Darren Synder who popped a shot past McEvoy.

The Big Red added the game-tying goal a minute later when fourth-liner Pat Heahy tapped a shot in front of the Harvard net that went in.

Heahy, who had turned around after his weak shot, only realized he had scored a goal when the crowd erupted in ear-shattering applause.