"You win when your juniors and seniors are leading the charge," Mazzoleni said. "We don't have many upperclassmen, but if can get games like Steve had, it bodes well for us."

Overall, it was a brutal, penalty-laden contest with 30 infractions in all called on the day. A fight nearly broke out at the end of the first period as defenseman Tim Stay and Westerman nearly dropped the gloves. Stay was rushing to the defense of Dominic Moore, whom Union had selected for assault.

The Skating Dutchmen picked the wrong Moore.

Notes: Harvard's game next Saturday against Yale is technically in violation of Ivy League rules. Teams are not supposed to play during exam period, but the Athletic Department was not notified of the bumped up start of exams until after the schedule had been made, and Harvard could not convince anyone to switch games. If any Crimson player has an exam scheduled for Jan. 13, it will be administered to him on the road either by one of the coaches, media relations staff, or another university official brought to New Haven for explicitly that purpose....Sports Illustrated's recent issue on fans included a brief profile of 87-year old Cheesehead Paul Mazzoleni, the father of Harvard Coach Mark Mazzoleni. Mazzoleni admitted after the game that his family has Green Bay Packers season tickets and that he himself hadn't missed a game until he left for college, a streak that included a trip to the infamous Ice Bowl.