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...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...
...first game the puck was kept well away from the University goal but the forwards seemed to be handicapped somewhat by the size of the rink which has been shortened by one third to accustom the players to the size of the St. Nicholas Rink where the team will meet. Yale in the last game of the season on February 18. There was a tendency for the offence to be bunched and the wings did not keep their positions as they should have done. This had a noticeable effect at first, but later the line straightened out and the attack...
...morning the whole squad will leave Hartford on a special train to New Haven. This trip is being made to accustom the men to the different light and skyline at Yale Field; in former years, only the backs and ends were sent down for this purpose. At 12 o'clock the squad dines at the Yale Dining Hall, and at 12.30 takes a special car to Yale Field for signal practice and punting only. The return to Farmington will be made at 4 o'clock...