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1YALG- AKNGR AND POT-POURRI! HOCKEY SEASON THE season was formally opened on No- vember 18 with a meeting at Lamp- son Lyceum. Since only two members of last year ' s squad were lost by graduation, a great quantity of veteran material was present, as well as many promising sopho- mores. Speeches by Coach L. M. Noble, 1927, J. M. Cates, 1906, Athletic Director, Captain R. F. Wilson, Holcomb York, 1917, R. F. Vaughan, 1928, and Manager C. B. Longstreth featured the meeting. About two weeks ' practice was held in which the squad was divided into the varsity and Jun- ior varsity squads prior to the opening game with Boston University. Boston University brought a team of veterans down on December 1 1 to inau- gurate Yale ' s schedule. But they were no match for the Blue and Palmer, whose three unassisted goals were the features of the game, and they were defeated by a 6 to 2 score. Nelson, Schley, and Winter each contributed one goal to the Eli ' s total. No penalties were inflicted upon the Yale players. The University Club of Boston, which in past years has always provided stiff com- petition for Yale, lived up to its standard when on December 14 it held the Blue to a 1 to score. Nelson tallied in the first period. Learned, the spectacular goalie for the visitors, provided the thrills of the game when he successfully turned back all the dashes of the Yale forwards who were continually penetrating far into enemy ter- ritory. With the coming of Christmas vacation, Yale invaded Madison Square Garden on December 21 and nosed out Dartmouth College for a 3 to 2 victory. Dartmouth scored after fifteen minutes of the first period. Yale tied things up in the second and jumped ahead on two goals by Bost- wick. But Dartmouth snapped back. Then Nelson scored, leaving Yale ahead by a point as the last frame opened. The last pe- riod was hard fought and spectacular, but no further scoring was done. On December 29, after a week ' s rest, sixteen Blue skaters embarked by train for the Adirondacks, where at the Lake Placid Club they were to test the strength of the cream of the Middle Western crop, Michi- gan University. In spite of soft ice due to unexpected warm weather and many flur- ries of snow, Yale ran through her series of three games without a setback, the scores being 7 to 1, 1 to 0, and 8 to 2. In the first game on December 30, Yale was working smoothly, her offensive was clicking in mid-season style, and her whole squad of sixteen men, all of whom saw action, was in good condition. Bostwick repeated his Dartmouth performance, registering two, while Bent, Luce, Iglehart, Palmer, and Nelson also struck home for scores. In the second encounter on the next day, the Elis, without exerting themselves, just managed to squeeze out a 1 to win, with Iglehart credited with the only score. The game was as rough as it was ragged, nineteen men be- ing sent to the Penalty Box. Luce in the last of the series, entertained with a magnifi- cent solo exhibition of scoring. During one three-minute period he pushed the disk past the astonished opposing goalie three times. He added to this off and on during the battle with two other markers. Bost- wick, McLennan, and Schley added one each. For the first time during the week the weather was clear and the ice smooth. Returning to New York in the prime of condition, Yale was faced with the propo- sition of crossing sticks on January fourth with a team that had upset Harvard twice during the past week and had sadly de- molished a supposedly powerful Dartmouth team, 11 to 3. This was the Toronto Uni- versity sextet which, since its invasion into American soil, had remained undefeated. But Yale duplicated her feat of last year. She even toppled the Canadians by the same score, 3 to 2, as that of last year. The battle had championship flavor; papers said it would settle the intercollegiate title. After the game people claimed that seldom is better or faster college hockey than that of this struggle seen in the East. Toronto, led by Red Whitehead, opened the scoring early in the opening frame. This score re- mained during the first period. Yale came back strong in the next period, Luce, in three minutes of brilliant hockey, so char- acteristic of this Eli team during certain short intervals, sinking two shots. But, with twenty-nine seconds of the period left, Toronto retaliated with one. Traditional determination and bitterness characterized the last canto. Palmer put Yale ahead with a long shot. In the remaining minutes of play, Iglehart ' s poke checking featured the Blue ' s air-tight defense. Michigan Tech, reputed to be good and credited with a 3 to 3 tie with Princeton the week before, invaded the Blue ' s ground on January 7. The score, which was 15 to 0, indicates the one-sidedness of the game. Eighteen Blue-jerseyed warriors joined in the rout; eight of these entered the scoring column: Palmer with four goals, McLennan with 3, Bostwick and Luce each with 2, 283

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iyalg-panvo and pot-pourri: Coach Noble Bent, Iglehart, and Muhlfeld and Nelson with one apiece. Because of the cancellation of the Dart- mouth game due to the lack of ice at Hanover on January 11, a game with the Boston Hockey Club, a new organization with considerable individual class, was sub- stituted on January 15. Yale repeated her double-figure performance of the last game, amassing 1 1 points to the Boston team ' s 3. Palmer ran wild, skating around the opposing defense at will and netting five goals. He was ably assisted by Luce, whose three goals, added to those of Bent, Cookman, and McLennan, made up the 11. Luce furnished a spectacular feat when, with two Yale men off the ice and the Boston players forcing for a score, he skated through the whole opposing team and slid one unassisted past the goalie. He repeated a few minutes later when one Yale man was serving a two-minute pen- alty. The team was handicapped by the ab- sence of Wilson and Farrel, owing to in- juries. With memories of a previous 1 to close call, Yale took on for the second time the University Club of Boston. The game, played on January 18, was closely fought during the first period. It was not until the middle of the second period that the first goal was netted off McLennan ' s stick. This started an offensive rampage which left the score 5 to at the end of this period and 8 to 1 at the close of the game. Luce, Palmer, and Nelson scored twice, while Bent and McLennan added one apiece. On January 22, Dartmouth, fresh from an 8 to 4 win over Princeton, entered the Arena with hopes of reversing the 3 to 2 score of the last encounter. They left a few hours later that night with an 1 1 to 1 score 284 staring them in the face. The Bulldog had bitten again with all his former vehemence. An unbelievable total of ten goals was chalked up after two periods of an irre- sistible Blue surge. Dartmouth, despite her willingness to fight continuously, although hopelessly outclassed, played raggedly, lacking the teamwork and defense which more practice might have produced. Luce scored three, Palmer, Bostwick, and Nel- son two, Bent and Hickok one. Mid-term vacation having given Wilson and Farrel enough time to recuperate from their injuries, Yale in full strength entered the game on February 8 with a strong Clarkson sextet. This small college from Potsdam, New York, had produced in the past many strong combinations. This year ' s aggregation was no exception. It was a fast and tricky lot of skaters, seriously handi- capped by the lack of substitutes, that fell a tough victim to the tune of 5 to 1 before Yale ' s offense. Wilson and Farrel seemed but slightly affected by their long rests, the former continuing his bearcat work at dumping attacking puckmen while the lat- ter showed his old skilful style before the nets. McLennan led the scoring with two tallies. Bent, Bostwick, and Palmer also contributed. Marquette University, bringing a crack sextet that had swept all opposition before its path in the Middle West, invaded New Haven on February 11. Although their team included MacKenzie and McFayden who are considered to be two of the most outstanding individual stars in college hockey, and although they had beaten the Army and Harvard, they could not stop Yale ' s last-minute rush which resulted in four goals to give the Elis an 8 to 3 victory. The visitor ' s defense consisting of three men lined up on the Blue line flanked closely by the two wingmen, caused Yale so much trouble that until three minutes before the end of the game they held Yale to a 4 to 3 score. But, after a solo dash by Palmer which resulted in a beautiful tally, with three and one-half minutes to go, the Blue ' s offensive cut loose, ran over a tired Marquette team, and netted the puck three more times. Palmer scored three times, Luce and McLennan twice, and Bent once. On the day after the Marquette game, February 12, Yale added one more victim to her already large total. This was the St. Nick ' s aggregation which included in its personnel many former college stars. Lack of proper practice, however, caused them a 7 to 1 defeat. Although Yale won the game, which was dull and slow, her offense failed to click properly. Palmer tallied twice, Luce, McLennan, Todd, Nelson, and Stod- dard once.