Hockey Successes
And what a wide swath the Green cut! The boys who were shooting the puck around on the cement tennis court at a tin target opened their season by a 3-0 win over Boston College. They went to New York and flattened McGill by a 5-1 score, polished off the Nichols Club at Buffalo with much to spare, and returned to the Boston Garden to face Toronto, a real hockey giant. Listen to Tom McCabe, writing in the Boston Herald:
"Two wonderfully matched and fighting hockey teams—Dartmouth and Toronto— played a 2-2 tie game before more than 2000 wildly enthusiastic followers in the Boston Garden last night. The game went 70 minutes, 10 of which were overtime. Excitement was jammed into every minute of play, the biggest thrill coming eight seconds before the game ended. Dartmouth, through the clever work of Dick Rogers, seemed to have the game on ice. The Newton lad had teamed well with Ed Jeremiah, and had popped through a goal in the overtime that dissolved the tie, and with only 4 minutes and SO seconds to play, things looked good for the Green."
"Dartmouth pulled in its defence, and Toronto was repelled time after time. Just as the boys were ready to leave, Whitehead of Toronto, skating about the Dartmouth blue line, let fly a fast one. Capt. Molly Bott was blinded on the play by a defence man, and the puck shot through, tying the count with only eight seconds to play. There was no question about the value of each outfit. Dartmouth is as good as there is, and Toronto is a real varsity."
Following the Toronto tie, Dartmouth again met McGill, in Boston, and the result was a 2-1 overtime victory, and the Green appeared to be a slightly stale outfit. Bob Fryberger, star in the forward line was injured during a mixup, and the little fellow who had been quite a factor to date, was declared through for the season. Chick Shea, regular defense man, received a broken nose in the same game, and was incapacitated. It was small wonder that a fine Yale team coasted to a 5-1 victory over Dartmouth the next night in New Haven. In a horrible first period from a Dartmouth standpoint, the Blue banged in four goals, and the Green was demoralized.
HANOVER GAMES
But the best was yet to come. Returning to Hanover, the hockey team found an excellent Stretch of winter weather, and for two weeks the ice was hard and firm. Boston College again showed fair opposition, but were defeated 5-2, and Harvard loomed in the offing.
There is perhaps nothing that will stir the blood of sports followers at Dartmouth more thana Harvard game, whether it be in football, hockey, or some other sport. As usual, Harvard had one of her fine teams, and only a 3-2 defeat by Toronto had marred her record, although later, like Dartmouth, she tied the Canadians.
Something tells the writer that the coming sport between colleges is hockey, and in time it will be only second to football in interest. This is not written in the flush of the moment, because during the vacation a number of games were witnessed in which Dartmouth was not a contending team, and nevertheless excitement was to be had for an impartial observer.
To those of us who sat about the home rink that Saturday afternoon and saw Dartmouth beat Harvard 2-1 in a wild, torrid hockey game, the impression will last a long time.
HARVARD BEATEN
Harvard, bringing a veteran outfit to Hanover for the first time in over a decade, gave everything that they had during the hour of actual playing. The Bigelow twins, veritable Mike and Ike in appearance, checked back the Dartmouth forward attack, and Bobby Giddens, Putnam and Tudor stormed around. Molly Bott.
Capt. Bott was the hero of the game, and the Dartmouth goalie, completing his third year of varsity hockey, proved without a doubt the contention that he is the best goalie in college circles. Harvard scored in the first three minutes of play, and little Moe Heath equalised his tally in the second period. Then indomitable Dick Rogers, late in the same period, lifted a looping shot from the Harvard blue line, and it zoomed past goalie Jackson for what was the winning tally.
The remainder of the game, practically the whole third period found Dartmouth drawing into a close defense trying to protect their one goal lead. Penalties were freely inflicted, and the spectators were treated to that hair raising brand of hockey whereby the whole Harvard team, continuously and without restraint, stormed Molly Bott, who sometimes had only three men on the ice to support him. The final whistle broke the suspense, and Dartmouth was the winner.
G. M. BOTT '29 Captain and goal tender of the varsity hockey team. His brilliant work has been the major factor in Dartmouth's victories on the ice this season. His home is in Arlington, Massachusetts.
DARTMOUTH DEFEATS HARVARD 2-1 One of the many scrimmages around the Harvard net when the Big Green defeated the Crimson in the first hockey game played at Hanover between these old rivals for many years. Before the Dartmouth wing, Heath, could reach the loose puck in the left of the photo, it was cleared by Bigelow, of the Harvard defense.
A CLOSE CALL FOE HARVARD! Favored with good ice the strong Harvard and Dartmouth sextets played a fast and thrilling game at Hanover January 12. Jackson, the Crimson goal tender, has left the net to block off a shot by Shea, Dartmouth left defense. Later in the period Rogers, Dartmouth's star wing, scored an unassisted goal which broke the existing tie and proved to be the winning goal.
RICHARD ROGERS '£9 The veteran right wing from Newton, Massachusetts, who is rated one of the outstanding college hockey players of the country. This is Rogers' third year on the varsity.
