HOCKEY

Hockey has been, so far this season, by all odds the most satisfactory of winter sports at Hanover. While the basketball team has been managing to lose games with alarming consistency, the hockey team has won from Tufts and Massachusetts Agricultural College and succeeded in holding the fast Pittsburg A. A. team, which recently beat the Boston Arena, to very small scores.

The team was fortunate in having three such reliable men as Murphy, Gale and Ross upon whom to build the basis of team work. Early in the season J. H. Murphy '19 was appointed both coach and captain, and the latter appointment later ratified by the team. All of these three men played on the hockey seven last year, winning their letters, and were members of the freshman septet. Murphy plays a brilliant game at rover while Gale has been proving one of the most consistent goal minders that Hanover has seen. In addition to these men were Proctor and Davis, who won their numerals on the 1919 team, and F. Ross, a capable freshman from Melrose.

From these elements Coach Murphy succeeded in lining up a team, which, while not very heavy, played a fast passing game to a decided advantage. The first game was at Hanover against Tufts and the seven partially revenged the football defeat of this fall by beating the Medford team 5 to 0. Shortly after this the team journeyed to Pittsburg, arriving there after a long ride only a half an hour before the game. The first meeting resulted in an 8 to 0 defeat. Murphy put up a spectacular game but the team was unable to offer him any material assistance. The game the following night was far more satisfactory, the Green holding the Smoky City aggregation to a 7-5 score. Murphy again put up a good game and Proctor at center ably supported him. At goal, Gale turned back shot after shot.

The next game of the team was at Northampton where it defeated M.A.C. 3-0. There was to have been a game with Williams the day before this contest, but the closing of Williams necessitated the cancelling of the date. The Aggies looked rather easy at the time, but they got their revenge February 14, when they defeated Dartmouth on her home rink 5-2. The Green seven had seen no practise for a week, but whether lack of practise or the poor condition of the men hindered the play, the team seemed unable to get under way. The season was closed by a game against St. Paul's at Concord February 22.