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With the college ice season more than half over, it is pretty certain that Clark Hodder's first Varsity puck team will not carry off the laurels in either the international or the Quadrangular League. But no sane Crimson hockey rooter really expected the squad to show any fireworks this year. Faced with the problem of a comparatively inexperienced team with practically no veteran material and with only one really outstanding star, Hodder has had a difficult situation in his first year at the new job, and the team's record of four wins, four losses, and one deadlock...
...surprise victory over Queens, the January turning point in the Varsity's campaign, was largely due to a change in tactics, for in that encounter Hodder began the wise policy of beating out a faster team by playing a close-checking game and capitalizing on breaks for offensive sallies. But tactics alone cannot explain the Varsity's tendency to blow very hot one night and very cold the next. As Coach Hodder explains it, it is largely due to the team's inexperience...
...Austie in scoring, with four goals and two assists, a record that was recently augmented by his two tallies against Yale last Friday. And Warren Winslow, who has been holding down the other wing berth on the same line, follows him. Substitute lines have been a big problem for Hodder this year, with most of the teams he has had to face having strong second and third trios. The second line of DeRahm, Eaton, and Cutler, has shown up well in recent games, however and the sophomore line of Ervin, Willets, and Hulse is excellent material...
...defense, badly weakened by the graduation of stars from last year's team, has been another big worry, although Win Jameson, converted forward, Bill Coleman, Carstein, and Perkins showed a lot of improvement in last week's games. Vint Freedley, Coach Hodder's choice in goal after nearly a month of alternating him with Johnson and Mittell, has shown very definitely that he warranted...
Despite the troublesome days ahead, Coach Hodder did not seem pessimistic yesterday. "Of course we have an inexperienced team," he said, "and so it is pretty hard to make predictions. But if we don't make any mistakes and play our best game of hockey, I think we have a good chance from now on, I've seen both Dartmouth and Yale play. They are both fast teams and they can both outskate us, but if we play our best I think we can beat them...