Severl people are quoted...
> >Providence won 8-5, Brown won 6-2, and BC beat RPI 7-6 in OT.  Providence
> >then defeated BU (for the second time that season -- those were BU's only
> >two losses all year, and the Terriers would go on to take the NC$$ Champ-
> >ionship).
 
BU also lost to Yale that year.
 
I was at that PC/BU game, and we wondered at BU's lack-luster play, until
we learned that Jack Parker's wife [was dying | had recently died] of cancer.
We were, of course, sympathetic. Perhaps the ECAC was, too, when it granted
that 'special dispensation'.
 
>   Of course Bill is too polite to mention BU's "special dispensation" that
> allowed them even to get into the NC$$s that year.  In those days only 4
> teams (an Instant Phinal Phour - no fuss, no muss :-) were invited to the
> NCAA Tournament (2 East from the 17-team ECAC, and 2 West from the WCHA
> that at that time included several teams now in the CCHA; no CCHA teams
> were considered), and the 2 East teams were usually assured to be the ECAC
> Tournament Champion and runner-up.  After BU's tough OT victory over #8
> UNH in the 1/4-finals, and then a loss to PC in the semi-finals, it seemed
> that BU would be sittin' home come NC$$ Tournament time in favor of ECAC
> Champion BC and BU vanquisher PC.  But n-o-o-o-o-o-o .... For the first
> (and only) time in NC$$ history, a special pre-NC$$ play-in game was ordered
> played at Schneider Arena in Providence, the winner to advance with BC to
> the NC$$ Tournament.  Never mind that PC had already beaten BU twice that
> year; BU was perceived as the "best" East representative, and the rules
> were bent to allow BU yet another chance to advance.  Give them their due;
> they certainly made the most of their "gift" opportunity, running the
> table in their next three games and claiming the NC$$ Championship.
 
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