WHA game summary from March 6, 1976

Team	1	2	3	F
Cleveland Crusaders (27-32-5)	2	1	2	5
Houston Aeros (41-23-0)	2	0	2	4

1: HOU, Rich Preston 13 (John Schella, Gordie Howe), 1:31
   HOU, John Tonelli 14 (Gordie Howe, Terry Ruskowski), 10:25
   CLE, Ron Ward 26 (Danny Gruen, Al McDonough), 11:23
   CLE, Rich Leduc 29 (Gary Jarrett, Gerry Pinder), 15:31
2: CLE, Ron Ward 27 (Randy Legge, Danny Gruen), 11:00
3: CLE, Jim Harrison 27 (Juhani Tamminen), 1:10
   CLE, Jim Harrison 28 (Juhani Tamminen), 13:20
   HOU, John Tonelli 15 (Terry Ruskowski, Larry Hale), 15:09
   HOU, Rich Preston 14 (Terry Ruskowski, Don Larway), 19:32

Penalties:

1: Gary Jarrett, CLE 9:03
   Paul Baxter, CLE 13:12
   Rich Preston, HOU 14:55
   Randy Legge, CLE 16:33
   Ted Taylor, HOU 18:34
   Tom Edur, CLE 18:34
2: Rich Leduc, CLE 3:09
   Ted Taylor, HOU 3:09
   Paul Shmyr, CLE 7:50
   Rich Leduc, CLE 18:24
   Glen Irwin, HOU 18:24
3: none

Penalty time: CLE: 14 minutes
              HOU: 8 minutes

CLE Player Data	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM
Jim Harrison	2	0	2	0
Ron Ward	2	0	2	0
Juhani Tamminen	0	2	2	0
Danny Gruen	0	2	2	0
Rich Leduc	1	0	1	4
Gary Jarrett	0	1	1	2
Randy Legge	0	1	1	2
Gerry Pinder	0	1	1	0
Al McDonough	0	1	1	0
Tom Edur	0	0	0	2
Paul Shmyr	0	0	0	2
Paul Baxter	0	0	0	2
TOTAL

HOU Player Data	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM
Terry Ruskowski	0	3	3	0
Rich Preston	2	0	2	2
John Tonelli	2	0	2	0
Gordie Howe	0	2	2	0
Don Larway	0	1	1	0
Larry Hale	0	1	1	0
John Schella	0	1	1	0
Ted Taylor	0	0	0	4
Glen Irwin	0	0	0	2
TOTAL


Shots: CLE: 11- 7-10-28
       HOU:  6- 5-13-24

Goalies: CLE: Cam Newton (W, 6-9-1)
         HOU: Wayne Rutledge (L, 13-8-0)

Attendance: 7,268