HOCKEY
(1) Dartmouth 12, Boston University 2: Starting where they left off at Carnival, Coach Jeremiah's stalwarts swamped Boston University on February 18 on Davis Rink. This was the ninth straight victory of the year for the team, as against a single defeat and a single tie during the Christmas trip.
(2) Dartmouth 16, Williams 1: The next night they had even more fun, if that were possible. Scoring 8 times in the first period, the Green sextet completely slaughtered a hapless Williams team. Play-by-play the scoring went something like this: Firstperiod—Mather; Sanders; Jack Riley; George (The Cranston Crusher) Pulliam; Whitey Campbell; Kilmartin; Mather again; and Malone. Second Period: Botts Young (twice) for his initial tallies of the season; Snook Hughes; Cunliffe; and Malone. Third Period: Cunliffe; Walt Crowley; and Kilmartin. That's all, folks.
In the interim, came graduation and examinations, which perils combined to throw Coach Jeremiah's boys for a more drastic loss than any of their opponents had been able to inflict upon them all season. Captain Ralph Warburton and Defenseman Soupy Campbell were lost by graduation, together with substitute goalie Mannie Benero. Then examinations (and overcuts) delivered what was feared might be the coup de grace to the championship hopes of the aggregation. Bruce Cunliffe was suspended for overcutting, goalie Dick Desmond was lost for scholastic reasons, and finally defenseman Whitey Campbell was lost for similar reasons (to be re-instated after the disastrous Yale game).
(3) Yale 6, Dartmouth y. With his stellar aggregation still groggy from the onetwo punches of graduation and probation (see above), Coach Jeremiah's gladiators lost their first regular League contest to Yale on the latter's ice. With only defenseman George Pulliam holding over from the erstwhile starting team (Bruce Mather centered a second line on this occasion), Dartmouth started a sextet consisting of Hamilton in the nets (replacing the peerless Desmond), Pulliam and Thayer at defense, Freshman Walt Crowley and Captain Jack and Bill Riley on the forward line. Yale capitalized upon the understandable stage-fright of the new and comparatively inexperienced Dartmouth goalie to pour 4 goals through the nets in the opening period, leaving the Green with a deficit of 4-1 at the end of this stanza.
The rest of the game was spent trying to overcome this initial discrepancy, with Coach Jeremiah throwing the book at the Yales in the final period. In this hectic canto, the Green had five wingmen on the ice at once, dispensing with the formality of defense men in a desperate effort to pull the game out of the fire. The final period saw these heroic tactics pay off with 3 Dartmouth goals, which were unfortunately not quite enough.
(4) Dartmouth 15, Harvard 4: Four days later, the team came back from the bitter debacle against Yale to hand Harvard one of the most devastating defeats sustained by a Crimson hockey team in recent years. On the same night that Ed Leede was racking up his record-breaking total on the floor of Alumni Gymnasium, freshman star Jim Malone was pouring in an almost equally incredible 7 goals against Harvard in the Boston Arena. With several new faces in his talented troupe after the midyear personnel losses, Coach Jeremiah's boys practically blew the outclassed Harvards out of the Arena after a bitterly-contested first period ended with the score 3-1 in favor of Dartmouth. Business picked up in the second period, with a total of 6 Dartmouth goals, 3 scored by the übiquitous Malone, and the others by Bobby Merriam, Jack Riley, and Charlie Bodley. In the third period, the Indians mercilessly continued to pound the Harvard net, with 6 more tallies pushed past the bewildered goalie.
(5) Dartmouth 5, Yale 2: After sweating out two Yale victories over Harvard which brought the Elis into a tie with Dartmouth for the League leadership, Coach Jeremiah's boys took matters into their own hands and decisively defeated Yale in the play-offs for the championship in the Boston Arena. As noted above,, this undisputed championship gave the Green the right to play Toronto for the mythical International Intercollegiate Ice Hockey crown.
In spite of the. relative closeness of the final score, my informants tell me that the initiative was in possession of the Green at all times, with only the phenomenal ability of the Yale goalie averting a much larger score. The top hero of the evening for Dartmouth (Coach Jeremiah can always produce at least one hero every game, often a relatively unheralded one) was Jack Kilmartin, substituting at one of the defense posts. He came through with one goal and two crucial assists. The rest of the scoring was done by Jack Riley with a goal in the first period, Bruce Mather with another one in the same stanza, Crowley in the second period (in addition to Kilmartin's kill), and Malone in the third and final period.
Another feature of this colorful evening (which saw a considerable portion of the undergraduate body in attendance) was the woik -of freshman Bruce Magoon at goal. This youngster had put in an excellent season with the freshman sextet up until the week before the play-off game. Then an injury to Charlie Hamilton (the fourth varsity goalie Jeremiah has been forced to use this season) forced the wily mentor to press Magoon into service.,A rather sobering assignment for one playing his first varsity hockey was to be thus thrust into this play-off game.
(6) Dartmouth 2, Toronto 2: On the night of March 14, Dartmouth and the University of Toronto fought to a stalemate in Providence to come out all square on the International intercollegiate Ice Hockey Championship. The tie was in a sense a moral victory for Coach Jeremiah's men, lor the Canadian teams are ordinarily almost unbeatable by American collegiate aggregations. This superb exhibition of offensive and defensive skill was a fitting climax to a brilliant season for Dartmouth. It would have been pleasant, of course, to be undisputed International champion. But this is the next best thing.
The Dartmouth team was augmented for the occasion by former Captain Ralph Warburton (who had been in Europe on a visiting hockey junket, docking in the United States the day of the game); by the stalwart Soup Campbell at defense; and above all by Manny Benero at goal, who saved the day for the Green. These three men, as noted above, had graduated in February, but under the rules governing such contests were allowed to participate in the championships. The work of Benero, who had been substitute goalie to Desmond throughout much of the season, was extremely brilliant throughout this final contest, with his spectacular saves again and again causing the spectators to rise in their seats in spontaneous applause.
The Toronto goalie did not have exactly a quiet evening himself. He was called upon to intercept a number of hard and accurate shots of a fighting Dartmouth group. The two Green tallies were made in each case from behind—that is, the score was 1-0 and 2-1 against us when the boys came through with the crucial tallies. In the first period, Captain Jack Riley, playing his last game for Dartmouth, took a pass from Warburton and Crowley arid poked the puck into a corner of the net to tie the score 1-1. In the second period, freshman Jim Malone (he who scored 7 goals against Harvard) picked up a loose puck in front of the Toronto net and backhanded a drive straight into the twine to even the score. Neither team was able to score in the third period or in the final ten-minute overtime, despite desperate dashes by the Riley brothers, Warburton, Bobby Merriam, and others of the Green. At the end of 70 minutes of spectacular play, the score was thus all tied up and the two teams called it a night (Among other things, the ice was very bad by that time.) This was a blazing climax to a blazing season: 16 wins, 2 ties, 2 losses. Not bad for a small college.
SETS GREEN SCORING MARKS: Two of Gus Bro- berg's records were eclipsed by Ed Leede '4B this season when he scored 31 points in a single game, against Harvard, and 184 points for the season, which still gave him only third high in the EIL.
