Word: sextets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson hockey team inaugurated its 1929 season by crushing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sextet under a 9 to 1 score at the new Boston Garden last night. The contest was dull in the extreme brightened only at rare moments by brilliant dashes the length of the ice in the person of J. B. Garrison...
Despite the fact that the University sextet at no time attained brilliance in last night's scrimmage, the performance was slightly above the usual mediocrity of an opening game, and augurs well for a season as successful as that of last winter. Coordination was lacking in the attack, but a distinct promise for a strong passing attack, particularly in the first-string line, was manifest. The post which Coach Stubbs desired most to test, that of goal, still remains an uncertain quality due to the Engineers' weak defense. It will receive its first real trial in the game with...
...competent criticism of the very subjects which are on the tips of their tongues, athletic enthusiasts again find in the newspapers renewed satisfaction. Although the headlines are not as incongruously conspicuous as those of three weeks ago the articles are none the less convincing in the dearth of copy sextet supplants eleven and Garden replaces Stadium--if not quite so perfectly as could be desired at least adequately...
Five lettermen will be in the starting lineup of the University hockey team which opens the local season with the M.I.T. sextet at the new Boston Garden at 3.15 o'clock this evening. As was the case last year, the coaches by mutual agreement will waive the ruling limiting the teams to six substitutes, with the result that three and possibly four complete teams will have an opportunity to participate in the game for the University this evening...
Although the M.I.T. group defeated Harvard in a close game three years ago, the University teams have since been successful, winning last year 9 to 0. The M.I.T. sextet this year has played but one game, which it lost to Boston University last Saturday, but other than that, little is known of the team's strength...