. . . and Hockey
The Dartmouth hockey team faded from the 1931 picture by virtue of having the last two games at home cancelled and thereby ending another unsatisfactory season. The reason given out for the cancellation of the Brown contest was that the ice would not freeze in the rink and the Boston University contest went by the boards before that because the Terriers were making inroads on some sort of a round robin championship series in Boston.
The 1931 hockey team's record is not auspicious. Only one major victory is shown, that coming over Princeton by a 7-2 score and being eclipsed by the fact that Princeton took two games from Dartmouth in this series.
Three times Yale defeated the Green and twice Harvard turned the trick. Harvard beat Dartmouth 4-2 in Boston and then came to Hanover and took the Indians by a 3-2 score in a game which the writers characterized as lifeless until the Green "began to wake up" in the final period. The final home game was with Princeton, and the Tigers were 2-1 winners in another contest where the Dartmouth sextet never reached the heights.
Again Dartmouth loses several veterans by graduation, and the entire varsity defense, composed of Harold Andres and Henry Johnson, will be missing next winter. Dick Fisher and Vic Rockhill are graduated from the forward line and only Bill Morton and Nathan Hawkes, the goalie, return.
Dartmouth was forced to get along this year with practically one sextet, which is quite a comedown from the years when the Green was a factor in Eastern hockey circles. At Harvard this year the Crimson had two complete teams, interchangeable and rivals in every respect, and Princeton threw two complete teams against the Indians in their last meeting, in which Dartmouth was forced to pull a regular iron man stand simply because there were no reserves.
The latest news along the hockey front comes from McGill, one of the most prominent of Canadian universities, with a proposal that an international intercollegiate league should be formed. The McGill set-up would include themselves and the Toronto Varsity as the Canadian entries, with Harvard and Dartmouth as the American representatives. Such a league finds favor at Dartmouth, and even the extra proposition that Princeton and the University of Western Ontario be added. But hockey will have to improve at Dartmouth before the Green could make any showing in such a league, and we now look to the present freshman team for help.
The 1931 freshmen were a great sextet. They defeated Yale, Harvard and Princeton freshmen, which in itself is a noteworthy achievement, as well as defeating the strong Hebron sextet, which was just about the class of the schoolboy outfits. Capt. Frank Spain, Roald Amundsen Morton, the kid brother of Varsity Bill, Goalie McHugh, Bennett and several others all looked like varsity material.
