Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this change took place, the hockey series with both Yale and Princeton was much like football games in days gone by between Harvard and the "little fellows." The only question was how low opponents could hold the University's score. But this situation has disappeared as completely on the rink as it has on the gridiron. When Yale or Princeton meet the Crimson skaters it is now "anybody's game...
...understand and to sympathize with the natural objections to these proposals. 'At first sight, the idea of a gymnasium or a dormitory does not seem to accord with the spirit of a memorial. But it is only necessary to think of Harkness at Yale or of the Baker Memorial Rink at Princeton to dispel the prejudice against a "utilitarian" memorial. At its best a new dormitory might be a Harvard Harkness; at its worst it would serve a useful purpose. At i's best a new chapel would be a glorious, if somewhat lifeless, architectural monument: at its worst...
...gridirons. Plans for the new athletic field provide for full facilities for football, baseball, hockey, track and tennis. Three gridirons and two baseball diamonds are being laid out in addition to 11 new tennis courts, a cinder track with a straight-away and a hockey rink...
...Winsor was a member of the 1901 hockey team, which was the first team to play in the University's newly constructed rink on Holmes Field. The subsequent year he was captain of the University hockey team, and the following year, as a graduate, he returned to coach the 1903 team. This was but the first of fifteen successful hockey teams turned out by Mr. Winsor, which terminated after the season of 1917, when he was forced to resign as coach for business considerations. During that time Mr. Winsor built up the so-called "Winsor system" which proved so successful...
Facing Princeton ten days later, the University lost to the Tigers for the first time since 1917. The Princeton team, led by the brilliant Van Gerbig, showed the effect of its daily practice in the new Baker Memorial Rink and outclassed the Crimson in almost every way, winning 3-1. The University sextet seemed to have slumped noticeably, especially in regard to its offense, although the Tigers were the best team, with the exception of Toronto it had yet faced...