Harvard Icemen Obliterate Elis, 9-1; Parrot Ends As 3rd Highest Scorer

The Harvard hockey team closed its regular season by mauling Yale 9-1 Saturday night at the Boston Garden.

Three Harvard players--Kent Parrot, Ron Mark, and Bob Fredo--collected a pair of goals apiece against the fumbling Elis.

Parrot's four points, on two goals and two assists, vaulted him into third place on the all-time Harvard scoring list with 105 points. A first-period goal broke his tie with Lyle R. Guttu '58 for fourth; a third-period assist put him past William J. Cleary '55.

Playing before a small, mannerly crowd that seemed lost in the foggy expanses of the Garden, the Crimson took a 2-0 lead in a sloppy first period. Bobby Bauer scored off Jack Garrity's rebound at 5:18, and Parrot gunned a 35-foot slap shot that hit goalie Steve Holahan's stick with a crack and went in at 17:56.

Harvard added two more goals in the second period, one on a pinpoint wrist shot by Chris Gurry at 0:46 and one on Mark's beautiful breakaway at 6:12.

At the outset of the third period, Holahan was treated to the sight of three Harvard players coming at him on breakaways within a space of two minutes. All of them scored: Fredo at 0:21 on a pass from Garrity, Fredo again at 1:37 on a three-on-one break, and Mark at 1:42.

The best one can say for the Elis is that they were stoic. Yale players mangled passes, collided with each other, and contrived to waste a grand total of six Harvard penalties in the last two periods, partly through their own clumsiness and partly through the skill of Harvard penalty killers Chip Otness and Don Grimble.

Crimson Roll

Harvard continued to roll up the score in the third period, when Pete Mueller flicked in a 15-footer after a nice feed by Smith at 13:07, and when Parrot slipped the puck through the Yale defense and then followed it for a point-blank goal at 17:56.

Bob Carr had three assists for the Crimson, and Smith, Garrity, Mueller and Parrot each recorded two.

Harvard goalie Bill Diercks and Higgins (who replaced Diercks in the third period) had to make only 14 saves. Holahan halted 30 Harvard shots.

Harvard's record is now 15-8 overall, 14-7 in the ECAC, and 10-2 in the Ivy League.