Word: ices
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Batchelder '31, R. S. Ogden '31, and Sumner Putnam '31, marked the second practice session of the University hockey squad held in the Boston Garden yesterday afternoon. Coach Stubbs divided the 73 candidates, into two groups, each of which spent about an hour and a half on the ice. No scrimmages have been held yet, but the practice consisted of some fast carrying of the puck by various forward lines, and checking by several different defense groups. Some time was also devoted to practicing shots at the cage which four men took turns in defending...
...Harvard hockey players had to battle everything but the police in their efforts to practice in those late winters of the Gay Nineties. An expedition, carrying all its worldly hockey goods with it, would set out in the afternoon, like Xenophon's Ten Thousand, looking for a place with ice. When it was found, camp was pitched, clothes were changed in the cold, and hockey was played as conditions permitted...
...year the approach of an important game found the squad without work for two weeks due to the lack of ice. Resourceful as Ulysses, the manager produced a dozen pairs of roller skates. Up to the flat top of the Stadium trudged the team, and donned their rollers. A pistol was fired, and the men darted off to skate skate the top of the horseshoe and back. Tire trouble, specifically the loss of the rubber covering of the skate wheels, caused the withdrawal of all the entrants but one. He finished and still holds the Stadium roller skating record...
After 1900, Harvard and Yale met in annual games, and from the start of the series the Crimson maintained the superiority in the ice game that has kept Yale in submission since that date. Twenty-one of the annual series has been crowned by Harvard victories, and only six have gone the way of New Haven. Yale won the first game, in 1900, and took two out of three two years later after Harvard had scored a 4-0 shootout in the only game played in 1901. Through 1907 there was an unbroken run of Harvard victories...
...paralyzed HarvardYale ice activity in 1918, and in 1919 the teams had to play in Brooklyn, which seemed to be a bad plan, since only one contest was played. Harvard fought off the Long Island damps better than Yale, and look the game...