Cornell Tops Sextet, 4-1

The Cornell hockey team relied on goalie Ken Dryden for a precarious early lead, then added two third-period goals for a 4-1 victory at Watson Rink last night. The Big Red sophomore held off everything but an inspired solo by Jack Garrity, as the Ithacans virtually clinched their second straight Ivy League championship.

Forty-seven minutes of penalties were meted out, 25 to Cornell, as both teams fought to the very end. Play from the opening faceoff on raced at the wildest pace seen at Watson this year.

The fast-skating Crimson six launched a heavy barrage on the Cornell goal in the opening minutes and Cornell retaliated, with Harvard goalie Bill Diercks matching his stupendous counterpart save-for-save. The evening's hostility and whistle-blowing started just as promptly, when referee Giles Threadgold saw Cornell's Doug Ferguson plant his elbow in Pete Mueller's face at 4:22.

The real damage was done three minutes later. Ferguson passed to Pete Tufford, who was basket-hanging on the Crimson blue line. The high-scoring sophomore skated in alone and fired a low shot into the nets.

Harvard picked up its first penalty at 11:18, and seconds later Ferguson scored on a spinning shot from seven feet in front of Diercks. Defenseman Paul Alt-house passed from the point to Dave Ferguson, who set up his brother with a sharp center.

At 16:43 mild-mannered sophomore Barry Johnson got into a tussle with Ferguson and Harry Orr, probably the two dirtiest players in the East. The Crimson sophomore emerged with a fiveminute sentence for slashing matched against Orr's similar penalty for buttending.

The Crimson profited from the trade when at 18:41 Garrity spectacularly carried the puck the length of the ice. He fooled Murray Watkinson, Orr's replacement, and pinpointed a bullet into the goal's lower right corner. Only a perfect shot could pass Dryden last night.

Dryden and Diercks controlled the scoreless second period. Two of the Harvard sophomore's instantaneous glove grabs had younger brother Bob Ferguson shaking his head in frustration.

The Crimson's upset chances dimmed early in the third period, when Bruce Pattison's bouncing shot from the left point was poked in by Bob Kinasewich to give the Big Red a 3-1 lead.

Then at 13:53 Skip Stanowski ended a Cornell power play with a carefully measured slap shot that exploded inside the right post.

The Big Red's man advantage stemmed from the biggest brawl of Harvard's season. Four penalties were administered, but Cornell's two were served consecutively by Mike Doran (who sat out four infractions in all.)