INTERCOLLEGIATE ASSOCIATION CHANGES HOCKEY REGULATIONS

Several important changes were made in the intercollegiate ice hockey regulations, and the schedules for the coming season were tentatively arranged, at the annual meetings of the Intercollegiate Ice Hockey Association in New York last month. Dartmouth was represented at the meeting by S. J. Flanigan '23, manager of the hockey team.

The eight colleges now comprising the association are Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Hamilton, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale. The delegates voted against a plan proposed this year for the formation of a league, which would force each team in the association to play the others.

The most important change in the code provides that a team may make an unlimited number of substitutions and re-substitutions at any time during a game when the puck is dead. A new ruling provides that a player can put one of his teammates onside if, after passing the puck to the second player, he advances in front of the puck before the second player touches it.

Another addition to the regulations establishes a line, to be drawn across the rink 20 feet from each goal line. When the puck is between this mark and the goal line, the defending players cannot be offside no matter what their position within this area may be.

The delegates also passed a rule stating that when the puck passes over the goal and beyond the field of play, it shall be faced off at a point three feet to either side of the goal, instead of directly in front of it, as in the old ruling.