Word: sextets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fresh from its 13 to 0 win over Bates College last Saturday night, the powerful Williams sextet took a short workout yesterday preparatory to doing battle with the University skaters at 8.15 o'clock tonight in the Boston Arena. The Crimson stick men were run through a short practice by Coach Bigelow last night and are in good condition for what promises to be one of the tightest contests on the schedule...
With the Williams sextet looming as the strongest contender for inter-collegiate hockey honors this season by virtue of its record of victories to date, the Crimson skaters will face one of the most difficult tests in their schedule when they meet the Purple puck men on the Arena ice tomorrow night. The surprise defeat of Yale by the Tigers in New York last Saturday night leaves the University team the only member of the "Big Three" which has not suffered a loss at the hands of one of its rivals...
Last Friday night, led by their brilliant leader, Watkins, who plays a strong roving center, and Popham, flashy right wing, the Williams rink team downed Boston University three goals to two. The Boston squad had previously won from the Crimson sextet in an early season game. The winners used two forward lines intact with little to choose between them in effectiveness. The first string combination of Captain Watkins, center, and Popham and Smith, wings, is a fast scoring threat with plenty of weight. Mason, Austin, and Banks make up the second attack group, and on the defense Howe and Baker...
With Crosby and Putnam, the speedy right wing and center, leading the attack, and Jackson and Traynor protecting the net in a flashy style, the 1929 hockey sextet defeated the strong St. Mark's skaters by a 3 to 1 score at Southboro on Saturday afternoon, for its second win of the season. The Crimson first-year men topped one of the most threatening obstacles in their schedule by disposing of the heavy scoring schoolboys who registered a 19 to 0 win in their first game...
While the Freshman sextet was skating to a win over St. Mark's the second University team captured a well earned victory at Andover in a fast game which the preparatory school squad contested fiercely before going down to a 2 to 1 defeat. Hutchinson, the Crimson pivot, displayed the best skating and stick work on the ice, with Luce, playing opposite him in the Andover center berth, rivalling him closely in individual brilliance...