Harvard mustered only three goals in its last 120 minutes of play, and Saturday night, it could only tally one.

Just look at the box score.

Steve Martins, as he did all year, provided the only score of the game, and he did it unassisted.

In fact, Martins was--on the whole--unassisted all year. Granted, this was a team stacked with extraordinary individual talent beyond Martins: several players had huge games in clutch situations, scoring goals without any help from the senior forward.

But when this season is looked back on, March 11, 1995 told the tale.

In RPI's locker room, a sheet of paper with "KEYS TO VICTORY" hung near the entrance.

Guess what was mentioned above all others?

"#27 [Martins]--chippy player, will retaliate--KEY TO TEAM."

Yet there were other factors: RPI's pesky shorthanded unit, always pressuring Harvard's pointmen on the power play, hardly allowing them to set up.

But after all the ups and downs, after the roller coaster of a lifetime, one statistic alone will tell anyone who asks how the 1994-95 season went: its record. Oh, if numbers could talk, what volumes they would speak: