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Can the NCAA Defeat Clutch-and-Grab Hockey?

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Can the NCAA Defeat Clutch-and-Grab Hockey?

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Can the NCAA Defeat Clutch-and-Grab Hockey? Sunday November 28, 2004#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) The Minnesota Golden Gophers are atop the national rankings as another season of NCAA hockey heats up. The Gophers reached the summit Friday, with a 5-1 trashing of last week’s number-one, Michigan. But another fight is underway, with potentially greater stakes. It’s a battle over the NCAA’s campaign to eliminate interference, hooking, holding and all that other stuff hockey fans and reporters like to complain about. It seems everyone hates clutching and grabbing, until you start enforcing the rules against it. In the eyes of many, the cure is worse than the disease. The NCAA announced its intentions in September, in rather plain language: zero tolerance on interference; zero tolerance for anyone using hands, arms or stick to im