Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston Skating Club, The Lynn Sports Center, and the Andover Academy rinks are the only other existing surfaces, but the Skating Club is already overcrowded, and other two are too far off for daily practice. So now again the question comes up, "Why doesn't Harvard get its own rink...
...H.A.A. is hopeful of constructing a hockey rink sometime, the sooner the better," answers Thomas D. Bolles, Athletic Director. But the H.A.A., along with all the other hockey followers in the College, has been hoping this for a long time. Two years ago ex-coach John P. Chase '28 initiated a fund-raising drive with $1,000, but the drive soon petered out because then the Arena was still available. Now that the need is imperative, maybe...
...advantages of a rink all of Harvard's own are tremendous. In the first place, the location would probably be on Soldiers Field, which would put the rink within walking distance of every student, thus cutting out a half-hour subway or automobile ride. The convenience, and the fact that the rink could be used exclusively by Crimson skaters, would give practically everybody a shot at some ice-time. Not only would the varsity and freshman squads get ample practice sessions, but perhaps a junior varsity could be formed with an opportunity for practice...
...freshman dormitories might be able to support hockey teams with such handy ice to use. The Harvard "Squares," and pick-up teams would be given ice-time occasionally, and the University's growing crop of champion figure-skaters could work out daily free of charge. In addition, if the rink were placed near enough Dillon, the lockers and showers in the Field House could be used...
Still without the services of sophomore lineman Dick Clasby, the varsity hockey team treks into the Frozen North today, eventually to play Dartmouth on Hanover's Davis Rink. Game time, for anybody thinking of watching...