HOCKEY

Dartmouth 5, Yale Dartmouth opened its perennial defense of the Ivy League title by nosing out a favored Yale sextet in New Haven by the narrow margin of a single goal. The Yale Arena contains various hazards for visiting teams in addition to the home forces, inasmuch as the local partisans become so enthusiastic that they frequently shower the ice with beer cans, sometimes without bothering first to imbibe the contents. As the opening encounter in a League campaign which is expected to prove pretty much of a freefor-all, Coach Jeremiah was mightily pleased to pull this one out. The hero of the evening was Arnie Oss, who scored three goals for major honors. Captain Walter Crowley contributed another score to the total, as did Spif Kerivan. With the two burly Yale defensemen throwing their weight around, the Elis drew two penal ties, which Dartmouth capitalized upon in the second period, running the score to 5-1 at the end of that interval. The final period saw Yale come back to score three quick goals, bringing the score to 5-4, but the Green hung on grimly for the final 13 minutes and came out the winner. With only 13 seconds to play, the Yale coach yanked all his defense men, including his goalie, and sent six forwards down the ice. This daring move almost paid off, with a final Yale goal going into the net a fraction of a second after the green light had flashed to end the game.

Boston College Dartmouth 2—A couple of days before Carnival, the national champion Boston College aggregation came to town. The resulting encounter was rightly billed as one of the great hockey events of the intercollegiate season. For two full periods, a spirited Dartmouth team held the mighty Eagles in check, only to succumb by the margin of two goals. The first period saw the Indians match BC shot for shot and goal for goal, with Arnie Oss evening the count for the Green after a pass from Cliff Harrison. In the second period, Captain Walt Crowley scored unassisted to bring the score to 2-all, following another tally by the invaders. In the final period, however, Boston College came through with two more goals to sew up the game. This game was a battle of wits, among other things, in which the talented Coach Jeremiah showed to advantage in tutoring his charges to fight off the admittedly superior striking force of the national champions. This was one of the best games played by the Green this season, even though they came out on the short end of the score.

Princeton 8, Dartmouth 5—The Boston College contest proved so mentally and physically exhausting to the Green that they had little left to hold off Princeton a couple of days later at Carnival. Spotting the visiting team four goals in the initial period, the weary Dartmouth team rose to great offensive heights later in the game to score five goals themselves. These heroic efforts were not enough, however, and Dartmouth went down to its first defeat in hockey from Princeton since 1941. The Green managed to score a couple of goals in the second period, one by Cliff Harrison and the other by Amie Oss. The Orange and Black cohorts, however, augmented their first period total with an equal number of goals in the second, with the result that the home team entered the final stanza trailing 8-2. The boys in Green then caught fire, with Tom Warner, Cliff Harrison (for his second goal of the day), and defenseman Johnny Grocutt each contributing a tally. But the initial Princeton advantage was too much to overcome and the boys went down to their second defeat in three days.

Dartmouth 6, Colgate 2—Coach Jeremiah's troops snapped out of their abbreviated losing streak and bested a scrappy Colgate sextet the week after Carnival. With Colgate scoring the first goal in the initial period, the Indians were unable to do very much about it, ending the first stanza with the score 1-0 against them. In the second period, they came to life, with Tommy Warner scoring, followed by Kerivan and Oss. The latter, playing despite a bad knee, again scored the "hat trick" with three goals during the evening, two of them in the final period. The last period saw Cliff Harrison, playing with a bad charley horse, come through for a tally, thereby making up the six goals for the Green. This was another outstanding game for Oss, who has teamed with Cliff Harrison and Walt Crowley on the first line to provide much of the scoring punch of the team this year. For this contest, Coach Jeremiah shook up his aggregation, moving Bill Stout to defense in place of Bob Gray and starting a line of Warner, Smyth, and Kerivan, holding the injured Crowley, Harrison, and Oss line in reserve.

Yale 4, Dartmouth 2—As this corner went reluctantly to press for another month, Coach Jeremiah's charges dropped a close one to Yale, whereby the latter avenged the 5-4 defeat earlier in the season. Arnie Oss continued his scoring activities, accounting for the initial tally for either side in the first period. Yale scored one in this stanza, tying the score, and then came back with two more in the second period, while the Green were finding their scoring sallies nullified. The final period saw Spif Kerivan come through for the other Dartmouth score of the evening, which was accompanied by another one for Yale. And that was that for the evening.