Hockey

Three league encounters during the first half of February have still left the Dartmouth hockey team without a victory over its Big Four rivals. Yale came to Hanover on February 2 for the first post-examination contest, and spoiled the league debut of Dartmouth's championship sextet by winning, 5 to 2. The Blue puckmen also captured the return engagement at New Haven on February 15, by a 5-4 score, and between these two engagements Harvard came to Hanover for the traditional Saturday-morning game of Carnival and set back the Indians, 6 to 2. During the first half of the league campaign Coach Herb Gill has constantly shifted his forward lines in an effort to uncover additional scoring punch, and the goalie problem has been acute.

In the opening league encounter with Yale, the Blue icemen used three forward

lines to Dartmouth's two, and this edge in manpower figured prominently in the 5-2 result. Play was fast and furious with numerous penalties. Yale got away to a 2-0 lead on goals by Rodd and Shepard in the first period, but Wolff counted on a long shot at 15:40 ta keep Dartmouth in the running. Paul Guibord and Junie Allen dominated play in the second period, and after Yale had scored a third goal on a face-off in front of the Green net, this pair collaborated on a beautiful tally that shaved the Blue lead to 3-2 at the end of the second period. With Guibord off the ice in the final session, Robinson and Cooke scored for Yale at 7:05 and 9:20, and the chance to even matters was lost. The Green six showed the lack of real competition during the exam period, but Guibord was individually brilliant and easily the best man on the ice.

HARVARD GAME RAGGED

Long shots and weird goal tending were the features of the Carnival clash with Harvard. All eight goals were scored unassisted from the neighborhood of the blue line, Dartmouth's two coming in the closing minutes when the Crimson held a 6-0 lead. Harvard's long, lofted shots bewildered Sam Harris, the Green goalie, and Bill Cash, his successor, had no better luck in stopping them. Paul Guibord, Dartmouth's captain and wing, was the outstanding man on the ice, but he was unable to carry the assault alone. He continually threatened to tally, but it was not until the final minute of play that one of his unassisted dashes produced a score. Play was close during the opening period, with Dartmouth having the edge until Ford's long shot eluded Harris. Harvard increased its lead with three goals in as many minutes in the second period, and two more tallies early in the final session gave the visitors a 6-0 lead before the Indians managed to score. A1 Butler, defense man, drove a hard shot past Reece for the first Green goal, and Guibord's shot followed soon after. The soft ice partly accounted for the ragged hockey put up by both sides. Guibord, Junie Allen and Jay Wolff made up Dartmouth's forward line, while Butler and Vincent Fitzpatrick started at the defense posts.

In the return match with Yale, Dartmouth got away to a snappy start, leading t-o at the end of the first period, but collapsed in the second session to allow the Blue puckmen to score five times and salt away the game. Dartmouth rallied in the final period with three goals, but the Yale lead was too much to overcome. Paul Guibord was again the spark plug of the Green attack, especially in the third-period rally. Red Riley accounted for the opening goal on an unassisted dash late in the first period, and the second-string wing netted a second shot during the uprising in the final session. Allen, assisted by Guibord, started the third-period rally with a goal at 11:02, and Wolff followed Riley's second goal with the final tally at 17:22 on an assist by Fitzpatrick.

The Indians faced Middlebury at Hanover between the second and third league games and won a 6-0 decision. After a series of close calls, Guibord finally started the Green scoring toward the close of the first period. Second-period tallies were netted by Wolff, Adams and Guibord, and Wolff and Adams again scored in the final session. Coach Gill started Devlin at center in place of Allen, and used Fitzpatrick as a second-string wing rather than firststring defense man.