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While it is impossible to make much of a prediction as to the result of tonight's contest, it is certain that the University team is determined to give its best and play its hardest to keep up the record started by the football and cross-country teams last fall...
Amherst was the first to tally after 5 minutes of play on a shot by Jones made possible by weak defensive work. During the early part of the contest, the University could not seem to find its gait. Though the puck was kept almost continually in the opponents' territory, the shooting was extremely inaccurate, and the play disordered. The period was more than half over before Phillips made the first score as the result of a pretty display of team-work and a fast rush the length of the rink. Shortly afterward, Phillips scored again from a half-scrimmage. Then...
...Arena last night. Baker, as was expected, was the mainstay of Princeton's offence, and his playing was fully as good as a year ago. Gardner's work at goal, however, was more than enough to make up for this as the score clearly indicates. The contest was cleanly played throughout and the penalties were due largely to over-aggressiveness...
...game in Boston and losing that in New York. This year there are three of last season's men on the Princeton team, Captain Baker, Emmons and Kuhn, and those who saw the game a year ago will remember that it was largely Baker's playing that won the contest for the New Jersey team at the Arena...
...outcome of tonight's contest depends a great deal on whether or not the University team can stop Baker. If his roving style of play can be blocked, the Harvard team should gain a victory, for it is largely his ability to take the puck into the opponent's territory that wins Princeton's games...