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ford views the upcoming season with<br />
guarded optimism.<br />
He has been shifting his boat, but at<br />
one stage the first eight included six<br />
juniors, one senior, and one sophomore.<br />
Tom Noble '67 of Stamford, Conn.,<br />
is the stroke.<br />
Others are John Lyons '68 of Villanova,<br />
Pa., bow; Paul Ericson '68 of Ft.<br />
Lee, N.J., two; Bob Kelley '68 of Akron,<br />
Ohio, three; Pete Robinson '68 of<br />
Findley Lake, four; John Lindl '68 of<br />
Kenosha, Wis. 5 five; Commodore Paul<br />
Schlenker '67 of Orchard Park, six;<br />
Richard Edmunds '69 of Freedom,<br />
seven; and Jim Mardian '68 of Phoenix,<br />
Ariz., coxswain.<br />
Average height is 6-3 Vi and weight<br />
is 195.<br />
The crew spent spring recess on the<br />
Potomac River near Washington, away<br />
from choppy Cayuga Lake, and is thus<br />
further advanced than recent Big Red<br />
crews at a comparable time.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> will use the traditional Pocock<br />
oars this year, after experimenting part<br />
of the time last season with equipment<br />
similar to the lighter, shovel-shaped oars<br />
made famous by the Ratzeburg Club of<br />
Germany.<br />
Golf and Tennis<br />
Prospects are good in <strong>Cornell</strong> golf,<br />
poor in <strong>Cornell</strong> tennis.<br />
The top three golf veterans from last<br />
year are back—Tom Cleary '67 of<br />
Ithaca, Capt. Terry Hofmann '67 of<br />
Ithaca, and Brian Garman '67 of Mendon,<br />
Mich,<br />
In addition Coach George Hall has<br />
several other veterans as well as a good<br />
crop of freshmen to choose from.<br />
The backbone of last year's 7-4 tennis<br />
team is gone, with the graduation of<br />
John Galinato '66 of West Point.<br />
Four lettermen are back—Craig Finger<br />
'67 of Niagara Falls, Mark Green<br />
'67 of Great Neck, Mark Taylor '68 of<br />
Washington, D.C., and Bill Swift '67 of<br />
Springfield, Pa.<br />
Coach Eddie Moylan looks to a promising<br />
freshman group to help fill some<br />
holes.<br />
a rousing winter<br />
• Improve on the past winter?<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> hockey coach Ned Harkness<br />
is enough of a realist to know that it's<br />
difficult to better a 27-1-1 record which<br />
includes Ivy League, ECAC, and NCAA<br />
championships, especially when you<br />
lose two all-senior lines and two top defensemen.<br />
But don't shed tears for the Big Red.<br />
And don't be surprised to see the<br />
Ithacans in the NCAAs again next year.<br />
The losses are heavy. Gone will be<br />
the three Ferguson brothers, led by twotime<br />
All-American forward Doug Ferguson<br />
'67 of Birsay, Sask., along with twin<br />
Dave and younger brother, Bob. Mike<br />
Doran '67 of Islington, Ont., center on<br />
the Ferguson-twin line, graduates, as<br />
does Murray Death '67 of Weston, Ont.,<br />
and Bob Kinasewich '67 of Edmonton,<br />
Alberta.<br />
Senior defensemen departing are All-<br />
American Harry Orr of Port Credit,<br />
Ont., and Paul Althouse of Kentville,<br />
Nova Scotia.<br />
A healthy nucleus, though, is back.<br />
The leader is sophomore All-American<br />
goalie Ken Dryden, the team's Most<br />
Valuable Player, who had a scintillating<br />
1.48 goals-per-game average in 27 undefeated<br />
starts.<br />
Defensemen returning are junior<br />
Wally (Skip) Stanowski of Willowdale,<br />
Ont., Most Valuable Player in the<br />
NCAA tournament, and Bruce Pattison<br />
'69 of Aurora, Ont.<br />
A complete sophomore line returns,<br />
paced by center Pete Tufford of St. Catharines,<br />
Ont., who led the Big Red in<br />
goals scored. Others are Bob McGuinn<br />
of Toronto, Ont., and Pete Coviello of<br />
Saskatoon, Sask., while first-liner Brian<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> '69 of Niagara Falls, Ont., out<br />
the latter two-thirds of the season with<br />
a knee injury, should be ready for action.<br />
Besides these veterans, Harkness can<br />
pick from what is probably the finest<br />
freshman hockey team ever assembled<br />
at <strong>Cornell</strong>.<br />
"There are five or six outstanding<br />
prospects, and a number of others with<br />
a good shot at the varsity," he said. The<br />
frosh wound up a 12-1-1 campaign, and<br />
averaged 11.4 goals a game. "I'm going<br />
to have trouble making this club next<br />
year," the injured <strong>Cornell</strong>, a star in his<br />
own right, said to a friend in February.<br />
The future of the eight Big Red seniors?<br />
Several are going to graduate school,<br />
and at least three are considering careers<br />
in law.<br />
Doug Ferguson hasn't made up his<br />
mind, but he may go to law school. He<br />
has other job possibilities, too, and one<br />
is pro hockey, though he failed to make<br />
the grade in a brief fling with the Boston<br />
Bruins in the final week of the National<br />
Hockey League.<br />
"He needs a year of minor-league seasoning,"<br />
Bruins coach Harry Sinden said.<br />
Doug is also considering playing on<br />
the Canadian national team, with an eye<br />
on the 1968 Olympics, as is Dave Ferguson,<br />
who is eyeing business school.<br />
Mike Doran is interested in Toronto<br />
Law School, and Paul Althouse has been<br />
accepted at law school in Dalhousie,<br />
Nova Scotia.<br />
Harry Orr will go to graduate school<br />
at <strong>Cornell</strong> or Waterloo to pursue a career<br />
in education. Bob Ferguson has several<br />
job offers in Ontario Province. Murray<br />
Death wants to attend business<br />
school. Bob Kinasewich plans to attend<br />
graduate school at Toronto and hopes to<br />
join the Canadian Foreign Service.<br />
Deadlines for the last issue prevented<br />
a complete wrapup of the winter season.<br />
Here are the final events in more detail.<br />
Hockey<br />
Boston <strong>University</strong> fans were far from<br />
conceding <strong>Cornell</strong>'s dominance before<br />
the two teams met in the NCAA final<br />
March 18 before an overflow crowd<br />
(6,571) at Onondaga County War Memorial<br />
in Syracuse.<br />
The Terriers had battled <strong>Cornell</strong> to a<br />
3-3 double-overtime draw in Boston in<br />
December, holding the upper hand in<br />
the two 10-minute extra periods.<br />
BU played the Big Red off its feet in<br />
the first two periods of the ECAC finals<br />
in Boston Garden before 14,000-plus,<br />
but wilted to a furious, Doug Fergusoninspired<br />
onslaught in the third period and<br />
bowed, 4-3.<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong> left no doubt, though, as to<br />
its supremacy the third time around.<br />
Its balance was one major factor in<br />
an easy triumph. So was the superb goaltending<br />
of Ken Dryden.<br />
Bob Kinasewich got <strong>Cornell</strong> off to a<br />
quick 1-0 lead, deflecting Murray Death's<br />
ice-hugging shot past Boston goalie<br />
Wayne Ryan in 1:26.<br />
Skip Stanowski unleashed a 30-foot<br />
slap shot for the Big Red's second goal<br />
at 18:55.<br />
Doug Ferguson went three-quarters<br />
40 <strong>Cornell</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>News</strong>