Word: rink
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with truth that sport lovers defy the seasons. Although Dr. Johnson had in mind the serious side of life when speaking of inclement weather, he would rejoice to add further comment were he to meet two undergraduates seeking recreation on a damp February day, one bound for the hockey-rink, the other for the tennis court...
Through the entire season the team has had one day's rink practice in New Haven with perhaps five additional afternoons on out-lying ponds and marshes. Not a man on the team was on skates the week prior to the last Princeton game. Hockey is impossible under such conditions. An artificial rink must be built in New Haven or hockey, the finest American winter sport, will be of necessity dropped from the Yale athletic program. If hockey is discontinued the university will lose every year a number of the finest men from the leading preparatory schools where hockey...
...artificial rink is a considerable initial expense; once in operation it will more than support itself. Money is needed to build such a rink. Without it Yale's reputation suffers. Yale News...
...records, is the fact that the misfortune of both teams is due to the same cause,--the lack of adequate facilities. In an editorial reprinted below, the Yale News, realizing the hopelessness of successfully carrying on hockey under present conditions, advocates that it be given up until an artificial rink can be built. Under equally disadvantageous conditions for training a swimming team here, it seems advisable to abandon it as an intercollegiate sport until a pool can be built. Such a step would hasten the construction of the pool, and would prevent the continuation of a sport which can hardly...
With rather a narrow rink on which to play, close scrimmaging near the goals, especially that of the Freshmen, was a marked feature; it was from scrambles such as these that the schoolboys scored three of their four scores, succeeding only once in actually penetrating the Crimson defense for a clean goal...