Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ability is used defensively," was the criticism of American hockey made by Captain-elect F.R.G. Giddens '30 of the Harvard sextet, in an article appearing in a recent issue of the "Yale Daily News...
...that the game here is greatly inferior to the game played in Canada," said Giddens. "Never has one been so impressed with the quality of hockey that is played at Yale, at Dartmouth, and at Harvard as this winter. The hockey is swift, it is rugged, it is good, and yet--the hockey we are playing today is not so productive, not so interesting to watch, not so exciting to play, as it should be.... The over-defensive tactics applied by all college teams is giving the sport a passive interpretation...
Giddens remarked, however, that there is now a tendency toward a more open game, of which he heartily approves. He feels that it will make hockey more interesting for the spectators and more enjoyable for the players...
...social and financial success of the dance, held for the first time this year, assured it of being an annual affair. The ball will be held in a Boston hotel on the Friday preceding the first Yale hockey game. It was also decided that the chairmen are to be selected alternately from the Military and the Naval Science Departments...
...officers of the Class of 1928, during the whole of the four-year undergraduate period, were all prominent athletes. In direct contrast, however, are the leaders of this year's senior class. Only one of them is a member of a university team: Rogers, hockey star, was elected treasurer. Orr, the president, is track manager, but has no other connection with the sports field. The vice-president is captain of a minor team, swimming; while the secretary is not even remotely associated with any sport...