Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-15
Yale Hockey Team Expect
To Be Best Ever.
Call Is Issued For Meeting Of
Football Committee.
Session to be Held in New York
City on January rs.

New Haven, Jan. 14.-Although the
Yale hockey team has already had two
clashes with the faculty. in which Il
has lost players, at least temporarily,
! its work in the preliminary games
makes it certain that when Yale opens
the intercollegiate championship sea-
son in New York City with Dartmouth
next Saturday it will present a stronger
aggregation than last year
Yale Is heartily tired of playing sec
ord fiddle to Harvard on the ice sur
face and this year will mako a strenu-
Gus rally for the championship it has
failed TO win for four seasons Captain
Roger Alling has quit the team be-
cause of Il faculty ruling adverse to
his scholarship and Harry Stanley has
been appointed to fill his place. STAN
ley'S playing position is point Will
iiams. the crack forward has been I'M
| der the ban of the faculty, but will
probably be declared eligible for the
championship season. Captain STAN
ley has picked his team as follows for
the opening game:
Goal, Lang; point. Dilworth; for
| wards. Stanley. Williams. Howard AMI
Driscoll; coverpoint. Thayer Thayer
and Driscoll are novices. but their work
| on the Christmas trip to Pittsburg was
| first class.
The team broke even on it's trip to
| Pittsburg. meeting the strongest anna
| teur teams of Pennsylvania. and of
Canada They were disappointed. how
| ever. in the failure of Princeton and
Cornell to keep their dates to play Yale
in the Smoky City. Since the team re-
turned to college Wednesday. it has en-
Joyed daily practice on city ponds. H.
stead OF being obliged to take a special
trip to New York city to get at the
artilicial Ice playing surface on the ST.
Nicholas rink.
hockey has won it's place in the van
OF winter sports at Yale, and already
Dig bonuses are being offered for seats
Tor the fale-Harvard game in st,
Nicholas rink. which closes the snaso,
IN March. The rink will accommodate
only about 1000 people. while tickets
Tor 10000 could easily be sold Last
year tickets to the game brought $40
cach. Already they are being engaged
at clean bonus of $40
| l.htca' Jan. 14.-Professor T., NJ
| bchnlS II Cornell, chairman of LAST
years intercollegiate football rules
committee. yesterday issued n call fo,.
| the members Of the old football rules
| committee and the committee recentlv
| erected by the Intercollegiate Ath,etic
ASSOCIATION of the United States TO at
tehd meeting in the Murray Hill hotel
| New fofk city, Jan. 25, for the purDnsa
Oh considering the amalgamation of the
Two committees again this wear.
Nhen asked his opinion as to vheth-
IcE tfe ainalgamatiOn would take nIacc
OF not Professor Dennis refused to he
quoted but Judging from some of the
statements made by other members
Oh pom committees this seems to ta
| tieieiy Il matter of form. 1t will be-
| remembered that when the committee
Oh the intercollegiate Athletic Asso-
cIatlon was elected during the Christ
mas ho!idays they were instructed to
amalgamate with the old football ruIcs
committee if possible.
| Professor Dennis also declined to give
an OPINION as to what nc thought ought
To to be done in changing the rules for
| me season of 1907. If the amalgama-
| tl"n takes place. as expected on Jan.
-, the new committee will be the same
as last year with the exception that
Professor w. l.. Dudley takes F. Fl.
Curtiss' place as representative Of The
southern colleges. 1t will be as fol-
lows:
| Professor l.. NJ. Dennis, Cornell
chairman: Professor l.. B. Fine, Prince
ton: Walter Camp, Yale; William r.
| Reid, Jr.. Harvard: John c. Bel. Uni
Vcrsity of Pennsylvania; Professor
Alonzo y. Stage, University Of Chica-
go; Lieutenant Paul J. Dashiel. Annap-
oils and Lehigh: Lieutenant Charles D.
Daley. West Point: F. Homer Curtiss.
Southern colleges: DR. James Rabbit.
Haverford; G. NJ. Savage. Oberlin:
Professor John r. Lees, University of
Nebraska and DR.. Harry l.. Williams,