The Hockey Situation
Only two games of hockey have been played during this period of publication, but both games point some sort of moral lesson. Working under the greatest of handicaps—that of no ice—the hockey team has not compiled an impressive record. The three defeats by McGill, which opened the season, and the defeat from Yale started the team off on the wrong foot. Then the Spring weather actually hit Hanover, and a Yale game was cancelled, and another had to be called off after the spectators were already seated in the rink.
A short cold snap intervened during the Carnival and the team was back on skates again, prepared to meet the invasion of Harvard's crack team. There was little doubt in anyone's mind that the Crimson would enjoy a good romp at Dartmouth's expense before a Carnival audience which packed the rink.
But suddenly those Dartmouth boys found themselves. They are not new comers to Dartmouth hockey, for the entire team is playing its second season as a unit. But they took advantage of the experience gained from a four day freezing period, and only a score made by Mike Baldwin ten seconds before the close of the game enabled Harvard to win by a 3-2 count. Baldwin's score climaxed a game of thrills for the many spectators, and Harvard's sextet, overwhelming favorites, found themselves trailing 1-0 midway in the second period. Hafey Arthur had taken a rebound from Bob Bennett, the boy who came back, in the first period and had whammed it home through the surprised de Give, Crimson goalie. Bennett is the chap who went on pro last year and was forced out of sports. This year he buckled down to work and turned up with a 3.4 average for the first semester!
Harvard attacked hard in the second period, but Jim McHugh in the nets turned back many Crimson sallies before Lee Pruyn found an opening after a Dartmouth player had unwittingly passed out from behind his own net directly to Pruyn's stick.
The third period brought out some sensational plays and Harvard took the lead on a long solo dash by Baldwin who scored in 10:20, but Roald Morton, with only two minutes to go, took a pass from Capt. Dick Jackson for a score. Dartmouth sent in its fast forward line, which included Wilbur Powers and Hafey Arthur in a last-ditch attempt to win, but Harvard's forward surged around the cage and at one time McHugh was entirely away from the net as John Putnam missed a set-up shot which would have been the winning score.
The winning shot came as a result of a perfect combination play when the Harvard forward line stormed to the net, Putnam flipping over to Baldwin who drove the puck home.
The game was satisfying in a way, if we can say that we are satisfied in defeat, for it showed what tremendous potentialities Dartmouth would have in hockey if only the facilities were available. I am sure that the present Dartmouth group would rank with the East's best if they had the advantages of Yale and Harvard, and it is a sincere tribute to those fellows who wear the Green on the ice to say that they are really a fighting combination and a credit to the sport.
Dartmouth gained its first hockey victory a few days later at the expense of small Colby, scoring twice in each period to win by a 6-2 score. Don Crowther and Roald Morton scored two goals apiece, and the game furnished a good work-out in preparation for the second Harvard encounter.
The swimming team also shared in the defeats of the Carnival week-end by bowing to crack Yale 53-19. I cannot recall when Yale was last defeated in a swimming meet, and Karl Michaels '29, the Blue's assistant coach, was all smiles about Hanover as his team broke three records during the performance. Walter Savell, Yale junior, broke an I. S. A. record and a Spaulding Pool record in the 200-yard breast stroke, and Yale's strong relay team broke a pool record for the 400-yard distance.
Dartmouth gained only two first places, both coming in the dashes. Dick Banfield came home first in the 50-yard event and Crouse was first in the 100-yard freestyle.
