HOCKEY

We are privileged to give you a firsthand account of the Yale-Dartmouth game in New Haven on January 24, written by one of our most enthusiastic correspondents. Scott Rogers '40 was Manager of Hockey and has maintained a passionate and informed interest in the goings-on about Davis Rink ever since. Here are exqerpts from Scott's description of the game, which Dartmouth won 6-0:

"Six to nothing, Dartmouth. But it was sixty to nothing as far as I was concerned Even the Eli's in the closing minutes of play began to realize that they had been privileged to see another edition of Eddie Jeremiah's great hockey clubs, and they were as outspokenly laudatory of the Indians' play that they ended the evening by cheering every Dartmouth rush and calling aloud for some Yale team-work

Dartmouth .... was a team that cleared intelligently, and checked ruggedly; it was a team that kept its head in rough stretches and it was a team that just rushed and rushed again; it was a team that passed and passed and passed, and once in a while shot to score

The game went something like this. The first period two fresh teams skated and checked extremely hard and it was half way through the period that the crowd was aware that Dartmouth hadn't scored; it seemed as though the score was at least 5-0 by then .... but the saves were excellent. Finally the second line whistled one in and the period ended 1-0. But the second period saw the Indians really pour it on. The second line whipped in their second goal, and then two forwards of the other two lines—two boys who carry nowfamous names in Dartmouth's athletic annals —(i.e., Riley and Merriam) registered their lines' efforts by opportunistic shots The final stanza was a wild one, with defensemen Crawford and Pulliam slowing up the Yale attack until it dwindled down to an individual rush proposition. And as the Indians continued to play a two-way game to protect goalie Desmond's shut-out, they cashed in on two more pass-plays to ice the ball game 6-0."

A couple of nights later, Dartmouth edged out a fighting Boston University aggregation 6-5, the identical score by which the Green had downed the same team earlier in the season. High point in this encounter was the work of Bob Amirault. who counted 3. goals in a wild and wooly second period, which saw no less than 7 tallies scored by both sides together. Bobby Merriam came through with an unassisted tally, following a solo jaunt through the entire enemy team. Sophomore Howie Richmond scored another goal for the Green and Walt Crowley provided the other tally. Coach Jeremiah was severely handicapped during this rugged encounter by the absence of three of his active charges (see below) with the A.A.U. Olympic squad. With the two defense men gone (Whitey Campbell and George Pulliam), plus brother Joe Riley from the first line, the wily mentor had to do some experimenting with his back court performers. The experiment consisted largely in keeping Mike Thayer and Jack Kilmartin in most of the game. Short-handed as we were, this was a good game to win.

The night before Carnival, Dartmouth played a touring California team, which had come east with an elaborately estabJished reputation. A combination of injuries to the visitors (sustained when they played Yale a couple of days before) plus some sensational activities on the part of the hosts made the game a 13-4 dance for Dartmouth. The California goalie, reputedly a highly skilled operative, was incapacitated in the Yale game and had been left in the New Haven hospital minus most of his teeth. In a splendid gesture of sporting friendship, Dartmouth lent reserve goalie Bruce Magoon to the visitors for the evening. BruCe gave his all for his temporary alma mater, despite the one-sided character of the score. He had 51 saves to his credit, which indicates his wholehearted efforts to stave off the avalanche of pucks tossed at him by his erstwhile teammates.

Coach Jeremiah was aided in this contest by the return o£ his three traveling Olympians (Campbell, Pulliam, and Joe Riley) and by the generally effective play of the team as a whole. A highly successful shift in personnel saw Bobby Merriam shifted from the third to the first line, where he teamed with the Riley brothers to present a powerful first-string offensive. Captain Billy Riley led the scoring for the Green with g goals, and practically everybody else on the squad got into the act before the game was over and the weary and hybrid Californians skated off the ice. Whitey Campbell celebrated his return from the heady air of St. Moritz by coming up from his defense position to score 2 goals, and Arnie Oss of the sophomore line also tallied twice.

The team delighted a capacity Carnival crowd a couple of days later by overwhelming a fighting Yale aggregation by the score of 9-4. After taking an early lead, the Green found themselves only a single point ahead midway through the second period, when the Yales brought the tally to 3-2. Then the Riley brothers went into their dance and came up with 4 goals in less than three minutes, to put the game (but literally) on ice. The brothers Bill and Joe were aided in their scoring activities by sophomore Billy Taylor from the third line, who scored once in the first and once in the second period. The totals showed Captain Bill Riley with 4 goals for his morning's work, plus 2 from brother Joe, the aforementioned 2 from Billy Taylor, and a lone counter by defense man Jack Kilmartin.

This game marked the valedictory for George Pulliam, one of the great Dartmouth defense men, who also won 2 letters in football and one in baseball to become one of the very few three sport letter men currently in college. (Bobby Merriam is the only other one, to the best of my knowledge, but there may be one or two others.) Night after night for three years, before and after the war, George has catapulted his bulky frame across the blue line at some attacking forward. The shock could be heard from one end of the ice to the other. A rugged competitor, who loved the game when the going was heaviest, George Pulliam will be missed on Davis Rink.

GREEN SKiERS IN CARNIVAL ACTION: Top, Chris Bugge, Norwegian exchange student, flashes down the Oak Hill slalom course. Middle, Henry Lumbard turns in another fast slalom run. Bottom, Wilbur Bull, who placed well in both cross-country and jumping, waits for the starting signal in the crosscountry race, one of the Green's strongest events.

GREEN SKiERS IN CARNIVAL ACTION: Top, Chris Bugge, Norwegian exchange student, flashes down the Oak Hill slalom course. Middle, Henry Lumbard turns in another fast slalom run. Bottom, Wilbur Bull, who placed well in both cross-country and jumping, waits for the starting signal in the crosscountry race, one of the Green's strongest events.

GREEN SKiERS IN CARNIVAL ACTION: Top, Chris Bugge, Norwegian exchange student, flashes down the Oak Hill slalom course. Middle, Henry Lumbard turns in another fast slalom run. Bottom, Wilbur Bull, who placed well in both cross-country and jumping, waits for the starting signal in the crosscountry race, one of the Green's strongest events.

DARTMOUTH'S BEST JUMPING PERFORMANCE AT CARNIVAL is turned in by Lowell Thomas Jr., whose third place paced the Indians' winning entry in this event before a large crowd at the jump Saturday afternoon. He was followed by Wilbur Bull and Tor Arneberg of Dartmouth in the fourth and fifth spots.