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Tonight at 8.15 o'clock in the Arena the Crimson hockey team, its real power yet untried, will face the Toronto University sextet, the strongest team in Canada and called by many the amateur champions of the world. Coach Claflin's men will enter the contest with the odds heavily against them. Not in years has a University hockey team been pitted against a more formidable combination than Toronto, whose record during the past two weeks has been considered by hockey experts to be remarkable...
...Coach Claflin realizes that as far as individual ability goes the Canadians are superior. Most of them are faster skaters than the Crimson men; the visitors are also better stick handlers; they have had more experience. Yet in the face of all this the chances of a University victory tonight are by no means poor. Coach Claflin is basing his hopes on superior team work and an impenetrable defense in which the forwards and defense men will play an equally important part. He also believes that the University men will make good every scoring opportunity...
This afternoon and tomorrow Coach Claflin will put his Crimson hockey squad through the final stages of its preparation for the initial game with St. Paul's School Wednesday evening. These last two practices will be spent largely in polishing up the team-work of the sextet and the playing of its individual members. It is doubtful if Coach Claflin will try any more experimenting before the contest. Hence the line-up which starts today's scrimmage will in all probability be the same which will answer the opening whistle against St. Paul...
...Coach Claflin has announced that the squad will return for practice from the Christmas recess a week early. The first work-out after Christmas will be held, in the Arena on the afternoon of Wednesday, December...
...most important shift was the sending of Joseph Larocque Jr. '23 from center to right wing. Larocque gave a fine exhibition at his new post, showing more speed and aggressiveness than any of the other Crimson forwards. If, as seems likely, Coach Claflin keeps him at wing permanently it will be necessary to develop an able center man to substitute for J. M. Martin...