HOCKEY

The Dartmouth hockey team has fallen on even harder times than varsity basketball. Since the opening of the winter term it has suffered four straight losses, two by close scores. The season record now stands at 3-4.

Injuries have added to Coach Jeremiah's juggle his line-up. Bob Tucker was lost from the second line for several games, as was Jim Cooper from the third line. At the same time, Chuck Zeh has been moved back to defense.

In the first game after Christmas vacation the Dartmouth hockey team clashed with Yale at New Haven. The Elis jumped to a 2-0 lead early in the first period before Dave Leighton on assists from Chip Hayes and Jack Phelan scored for the Green. The two teams exchanged goals again in the same period, the Indian first line scoring on a shot by Hayes.

The second period was all Yale as three goals moved the Elis out to a 6-2 lead. With less than seven minutes to play the Green put on a rally that almost pulled the game out, but not quite.

With the score at 6-5 and less than a minute to play, Yale put the game away with two goals in rapid succession, making the final score 8-5.

In a non-league contest at Boston, the Green lost to Northeastern 4-3. Injuries to Tucker and Cooper, too many penalties, and too many shots that refused to go in, hurt the Green. Hayes scored twice in the first period and Alex Varkes added one in the second to give the Indians a 3-1 lead going into the final period. Neil McPhee, whom the Indians won't forget, scored three times as the Huskies rallied to win.

At Ithaca the Indians met a talented Cornell team and played one of their best games to date, but in a losing 5-4 cause. Second-period goals by Hayes and John Fiske tied the score at 2-2. Then despite another Cornell goal, the Indians played good defensive hockey.

The third period was pressure-packed as Leighton knotted the score. Cornell made it 4-3 at 9:32, but again Leighton tied the game up, this time unassisted at 18:05. The clincher and heartbreaker for the Indians was a 65-foot slap shot that bounced into the nets with less than a minute to play.

Back on home ice for the first time in January, the Indians tangled with a much superior Harvard sextet, the current front-runner in the league along with Brown. A goal by Phelan gave the Green a short-lived 1-0 lead, but 35 seconds later the Cantabs tied the score and before the first period ended were ahead 3-1. A pair of goals in the second period and one in the third rounded out the Harvard scoring.

A. B. Street 'lB

First line wing Dave Leighton (16) pushes Dartmouth's first goal past the Yalegoalie. Captain Jack Phelan (5) and wing Chip Hayes were credited with assists.