Word: accustoming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University hockey team held practice in the Arena yesterday afternoon, preliminary to the second Yale game which will be played at New Haven tomorrow. The length of the rink was shortened by boards in order to accustom the players to the small ice area on which the game will be played. After drilling the forwards in passing, the first team lined up against the substitutes and defeated them, 3 to 2, in a fast and stubborn scrimmage of 20 minutes' duration. The defensive work on both sides was good, and especially the goaltending, for during the greater part...
Practice was held in the St. Nicholas rink in New York yesterday evening, and some light work will be done there this afternoon in order that the men may get into finished form and accustom themselves to their new surroundings. The Line-up. The line-up will be as follows: HARVARD PRINCETON. Claflin, r.e. l.e., Patterson Phillips, r.e. l.e., Kuhu Sortwell, l.e. r.e., Baker Hopkins, l.e, r.e., Kilner Goodale, c.p. c.p., Emmons Willetts, P. p., Lee Gardner, g. g., Winauts
...Yale game. Instead, the backs, kickers and centres, accompanied by Manager Whitelock will leave Boston Thursday morning, November 21, at 9.15 o'clock and will travel direct to New Haven. After lunching at the Hotel Taft, the men will practice on Yale Field Thursday afternoon, in order to accustom themselves to the different conditions of light and the tendency of the wind on the Yale field. Late in the afternoon the players will go to New London, where they will stop at the Hotel Mohican. The rest of the squad will join them in New London Friday evening, coming direct...
Practice for the first team yesterday afternoon was light, being designed only to accustom the new men in the line up to play with the rest of the team. To accomplish this, the forwards were sent down against the defence for about a quarter of an hour. The team-work of the forwards was very good, the men passing and shooting accurately...
...rink most of the time; but in the second the forwards began to work better together and carried the puck down to their opponents' goal more frequently. Both sets of forwards were evidently bothered by the small size of the rink, although the second team men seemed to accustom themselves to it more quickly than the others. The experience of playing on it will undoubtedly prove of benefit, as the St. Nicholas rink in New York on which Wednesday's game with Princeton will be played is also small...