OLYMPIC HOCKEY
Those readers of this family journal who follow hockey closely need not be informed that the United States is currently planning to enter two separate and rival teams in the winter Olympic Games to be held at St. Moritz, Switzerland, starting January 30. One of these aggregations is sponsored by the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States and the other by the Amateur Athletic Union. Don't ask us why this bizarre situation exists because we aren't exactly sure and neither, we suspect, are many of the officials of the rival organizations. Not to mention the boys who make with the sticks, skates, and pucks.
The point of all this is that, whichever team finally represents the United States, several Dartmouth hockey players will be there. The Amateur Hockey Association team, which looks at this juncture like the final entry, was picked first and comprises the best performers who had already graduated from college. Included in this group, now on the high seas, are the following former wearers of the Green: at defense, Stan Priddy; at center, Bruce Mather; at right wing, Bruce Cunliffe; at left tvirig, Ralph Warburton and Jack Riley. With this nucleus the Olympic coaches can/if they have a mind to, start the famed Mather-Warburton-Cunliffe line for the U.S.A., with Stan Priddy at defense and Jack Riley as a spare wing.
The Amateur Athletic Union team was selected later and is composed largely of men still in college. The group was chosen partially on the basis of the Intercollegiate Hockey Circus (see above) held in Buffalo over the Christmas Holidays. Four Dartmouth men were asked to join the team, and at this writing it is not absolutely certain who will actually go. Captain Bill Riley and Bobbie Merriam were asked but regretfully declined. Whitey Campbell, George Pulliam, and Joe Riley were also approached and accepted, an action that will perforce weaken Coach Jeremiah's current aggregation while the boys are out of the country. Whatever happens, only one team will play and the other will go along strictly for the ride. No matter which team finally receives the accolade of Olympic participation, however, Dartmouth will be well represented on the ice of St. Moritz.
