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After the usual drill of the first and second forwards in fours against the regular defence, the University hockey team held a fast 20-minute scrimmage with the B. A. A. team in the Arena yesterday afternoon. Claflin was back in the game after an absence of two weeks, due to illness. He played right forward instead of at the defence as heretofore. The passing on both sides was good but the University men showed superior team-work and succeeded in defeating their opponents...
Gardner, at goal, Willetts, at point, and Sortwell and Palmer, as forwards, were the veterans left from last season, while Hopkins and Morgan played on their Freshman teams two years ago, and Claflin and Phillips came up from the 1915 team. Neither Clark nor Goodale played on a Freshman team, but they had good training while in school. Claflin was playing a very good game until he was taken ill, at which time it became necessary to put in Goodale. The latter represented the University in hockey for the first time in the Princeton game and gave a very good...
...work of the University was on the whole very encouraging. Apart from the usual display of strength by Sortwell and Phillips, the work of Goodale at cover-point was the most noticeable. Goodale has been improving with great rapidity, filling Claflin's place so well that the team is little weakened by the latter's absence...
...first team has shown great improvement, due to the consistent drilling during the past week. The defence has been somewhat weakened by the temporary loss of Claflin, but Goodale has done well in his place. The greatest gain has been made in the development of team work among the forwards, which was very apparent in the Princeton game Wednesday evening...
...University team has progressed slowly, but in the game with Cornell last Saturday showed marked improvement over its previous work. The loss of Claflin is, of course, a serious one, but Goodale, who is taking his place, is a capable man and should give a good account of himself...