. . . And Hockey

The story on the hockey team runs its placid way each year, and the tale of woe this year is no different than last. At this writing we are enjoying spring-like weather in Hanover, and there has been very little ice for the team to work out upon. Under this system the home games are cancelled and the team packs up its bags and goes to Lake Placid or down to New Haven when it comes time for an out-of-town There is small opportunity to practice and certainly no one should be condemned except the weather man when Dartmouth loses hockey games.

So it was not too much of a shock when McGill slammed in 33 goals against Dartmouth in a three game series, or when the team was tripped by Yale 6-2 just recently. There is no question that Dartmouth has the material. There is no doubt that players such as Capt. Dick Jackson, Roald Morton, Ike Powers, Hafey Arthur and many others could be moulded into one of the East's finest teams. Dartmouth has had a minimum of home practice so far, and on top of that an epidemic of grippe reduced the personnel to seven men before the Yale trip was over.

Dartmouth played McGill at Lake Placid for three games, and these scores were 8-2, 12-2, and 13-1. Reports from that region indicated that McGill had one of the finest teams on this continent and that the Canadians were a well-rounded, veteran group. They had already defeated Harvard and Yale, the East's best entries.

Coming home from Lake Placid, the hockey players ran into weather which was conducive to golf matches on New Year's day, and drives in the car with the top down the week following. The weather is still the same as I write these words. Yale scored three times in each of the first two periods, and then eased off in the final period which saw a slight Dartmouth surge. Jim McHugh has been tending goal ably, and in fact all of the men have been doing their individual best, but the game of hockey, so like many others, is a matter of team and combination play and that hasn't been been practiced enough.

The Middlebury game, which was washed out, will be played on February 22, and another important date which we forgot to mention specifically is the Princeton-Dartmouth football game, November 11, 1933.