GREEN SEXTET HAS LONG TRIP
Beginning one of the most gruelling holiday trips ever undertaken by a Dartmouth team with a 5-1 loss to a Dartmouthmanned Boston Olympics club on December 19th, Herb Gill's sextet swung west to meet Minnesota in two games, the 29th and 30th. En route the Indians stopped off at Detroit and took a 15-4 lacing from the Holzbaugh-Ford hockey club, champions of the Michigan-Ontario League, in a heart-breaking uphill battle that the score fails to show.
The arduousness of the trip, longest for any Green six, strange ice and a strong Minnesota University team gave the latter a sweep in the two game series, 2-0 and 3-1. Both contests were full of hard-hitting, fast hockey between two evenly matched squads. Jack Costello scored the Indians' lone tally.
Two days later the Gillmen were back at Rye, N. Y., for a three day stay. After romping over Williams and Colgate 7-1 and lg-i, the Green stickmen grabbed an early lead against Montreal University's powerful team only to go down under the burden of sheer exhaustion and a barrage of enemy pucks to a final count of 6-4. Costello, Fud Mather, Bud Foster and Dave Walsh had combined to give the Green a 3-1 lead in the first stanza.
Dartmouth made its initial bow in the International Intercollegiate Ice Hockey League on January sth when Toronto University invaded Davis Rink. As was expected, the Canadian caliber of play proved too much for the home club and the final score was 10-1. Despite soft surface conditions the two teams put on a grand battle and the future of the International group seems a particularly bright prospect. The superb skating and stickwork of the visitors gave them an early lead and they were never headed, while Dartmouth's incoherent attack stormed Toronto ice continually but scored only late in the game as Costello poked home a rebound from Mather's stick.
Four days later the Indians invaded the Boston Garden to face a Harvard six which had beaten that same Toronto team 5-4. The Quadrangular League battle drew 10,000 fans—the largest intercollegiate gate since the depression set in—and was anything but the expected walkover for the Crimson. With diminutive Wes Goding turning in a tremendous game in the nets, the Dartmouth sextet held the going even until Ford scored twice for Harvard in the last seven minutes of the game. Gordon Bennett and Don Otis took over the defensive duties in remarkable fashion, with Jim Allen playing in the first line and Jim Feeley also going up forward. The rest which the Indians gained after the Toronto game showed plainly in the improved play.
SCORING ACE AND TWO SOPHOMORE NEWCOMERS TO BIG GREEN HOCKEY TEAM Left to right, Jack Costello '37, of Lowell, Mass., who has provided the offensive spark at his wing post; Wes Coding '39, of Melrose,'lass., whose goal-tending was the highlight of the 2-0 loss to Harvard; and Jim Allen '39, of Montreal, whose heft and speed havebeen employed effectively both at defense and in the forward line.
