HOCKEY

With 13 victories to its credit and with losses only to the Army and to Princeton, the Dartmouth hockey team may lay valid claims to the intercollegiate hockey championship of the east. Although handicapped by the lack of a coach in the earlier practices and constantly annoyed by the lack of a covered rink on which to scrimmage the 1923 team constituted a combination on the ice which did the college credit in every game it played. It is undoubtedly the best Dartmouth hockey team in recent years.

Dartmouth registered through the season 42 goals to its opponents' 19. Starting in with a number of veterans Coach Leon Tuck soon welded them together into a smooth-running scoring machine. With the return of R. B. Hall '24 to the line-up after being absent the first semester the team was greatly strengthened by his speedy skating and capacity for team work.

Captain Osborne on the forward line and Foster on the defense will be lost to the Green by graduation. Hall, Sheehy, Perry, Learned, and Lyon will all be back next year, so that omens for the 1924 season appear propitious.

Dartmouth 1 — Harvard 0

Two extra periods of unusually high class team playing' were necessary for Dartmouth to gather in a 1-0 victory over the Harvard hockey team at the Boston Arena on February 22. "Red" Hall, recently returned to college after an absence of one semester, sent the puck between the legs of the Crimson goal tender for the winning point. Pitted against Captain Owen most of the time, and Crosby the rest of the time, Harvard's star players. Hall scintillated as the dominating figure of the game.

The two teams were evenly matched. Harvard's attack was powerful, taxing Learned who tended goal for the Green, to the utmost. He made many sensational stops, and was mentioned by several of the Hub sport writers as the star of the game.

Princeton 3—Dartmouth 1

Before hundreds of Princeton Prom guests the Dartmouth hockey six outskated the Tiger combination in the first period, but weakened in the final session, so that Princeton won 3-1, Dartmouth's hockey finale for 1923. Princeton's attack was vicious throughout the game and goal tender Learned was kept on the jump warding off flying pucks.

Although the Dartmouth offense threatened the Tiger's goal often, they were able to push through to a score only once during the contest. Perry took the puck down the ice unaided for Dartmouth's lone tally. Jewett sent the Princeton mercury bubbling over the top when he tied the score 32 seconds after the beginning of the second period. Scull threw his team into the lead with a spectacular shot soon after and Captain Van Gerbig clinched matters with a clever shot past the Green goal tender.