Hockey

Dartmouth's other major winter sport, hockey, has not fared so well. The Green lost to Yale 7-4 and to Harvard 5-2, and yet has to win a game this season.

The Yale game was a Carnival highlight, and the score might have been a little less had Dartmouth chosen to protect the goal in the closing period. But the Green sent five men up the ice to storm the Yale goal and three Blue goals were jammed in when only Jim Mchugh was around to protect the Dartmouth cage.

Yale scored three times in the opening period when the combination of Kay Todd and Alex Fletcher was a little too much for Dartmouth. The Green, fighting to overcome this handicap, put on a real show in the middle period when Frank Spain and Bill Morton played sensational individual hockey to score two goals. Spain skated through Yale for a goal and Morton duplicated this feat on the other side of the rink, but it was the only Dartmouth threat. Late in the third period Spain scored two more goals, and his tally two minutes and forty seconds from the game's close marked what might be his bow to intercollegiate hockey.

The news broke just before the Harvard game that Frank Spain was ineligible and the one great player on the Dartmouth team was forced to abandon his favorite game. He was joined on the ineligible list by Bob Bennett, called the finest defensive player in the East, and when Wilbur Powers and Art Nissen, two other regulars, were sent to the hospital with grippe, Dartmouth's hopes sunk to a new low before the traditional game with the Crimson.

Memories of Dick Rogers' team of a few years ago were revived when Dartmouth met Harvard in Boston. For the Green surprised all hockey followers by scoring two quick goals on the Crimson in the first period, but the skeleton Dartmouth outfit could not hold this lead and finally succumbed by a 5-2 score.

Witli four regulars out of the lineup, Bill Morton moved up into the forward line, and Crowther joined him, scoring the first goal. But replacements are necessary in this game, and Barry Wood and his mates were a little too much.

The return of Powers and Nissen should bolster the team again, and everyone is eagerly awaiting the return match with the Crimson which is slated for Hanover before this issue will appear.