New-York tribune., 1910-01-27
TIGERS WIN TITLE
EARN HOCKEY HONOR.
Yale Fails IN Hard Fight to
Stop Princeton.
STANDING IN INTERCOLLEGIATE
HOCKEY LEAGUE.

Princeton defeated Yale by a score of 2
goals TO l at the st. Nicholas Rink last
night, and thereby won the championship
or the Intercollegiate Hockey Lea que, with
clean string of victories. By an un-
fortunate arrangement of the schedule Yale
was put out of the race in her first game,
and must finish the season without the in
centive OF fighting for the title now won
by the Tigers. All interest in the league.
so far as the championship goes is now
at an end. with the schedule only half over
The better team won last night, although
the losers put UP a hard. plucky fight and
made their opponents work during every
minute of play. For a time in the sec
ond period Princeton was on the defen-
sive, but the winning goal was scored by
Kay when Johnson, of Yale, was off the
ice for rough work.
The same man was penalized three times
during the game. and twice In the first half
Yale had two men on the bench. Despite
this handicap, however. the Bulldog kept
the Tigers at bay. Not a Princeton man
was ruled off throughout the match, and
this had a bearing on the result. The
Tigers played good, clean hockey. were bet
ter at following up the puck, fell back to
help out the defence cleverly and did better
shooting. Then they had Read on the
team, who broke up play after play and
was continually carrying the rubber into
the opponents ice. One of these rushes
brought about the winning tally as he
went down the right side of the rink and
passed to Kay. The latter played strong
game, and was in every play, while Pea
cock at goal made many beautiful stops
and cleared well. The wings of both teams
were weak.
For Yale. Heron, Johnson and Martin
played hard, the latter being aggressive,
but missing some good openings. There
was lack of headwork and poor judgment
shown by the Blue at critical moments, and
the men did not follow in on goal TO the
best advantage.
For such an important game. with the
championship at stake and considering the
keen rivalry of the sevens. the play was
not as rough as might have been expected,
although there was hard body checking and
stiff stickwork
The biggest crowd OF the season was on
hand and the closeness of the score. with
the game in doubt right up TO the last sec
ond. kept it at high pitch of excitement.
At times the din was so great the referees
whistle could not be heard
The first half ended with Princeton in
the lead by one goal. Kay scored 1t in
little less than five minutes Following
this Loutrel was ruled off for a minute,
and a second later Martin followed him for
two minutes, but despite the advantage of
two men more on the ice Princeton could
not penetrate YaIes strong defence Lou
trel no sooner got back on the ice then
Johnson took his place on the timer S
bench
Yale was fighting hard and holding her
NYVNnerfS well. hut could NOT the h
her before the call of time. Just before
the half ended Johnson again went off
this time for three minutes. He was still
When he got back on the ice lie made
handled cleverly Yale forced the pace for
a few minutes and kept boring in. but the
Tigers came back and kept Williams busy.
twice getting right in on him The game
getting rougher and faster. and in a
little over six minutes Loutrel tied the
score on neat shot from near centre.
The Yale partisans went wild and the team
hraced and kept the Tigers on the defen-
sive. Read finaly broke away. and. with
3 great burst of speed. bore into Yale's ice.
and just as he shot, Johnson tripped him
and Russell blew his whistle second be
was not allowed. and it was hard luck for
Princeton. With Johnson still off Read
again broke through the opposing forwards
and passed to Kay. The latter lodged
Heron and Svenson and broke the tie.
There was no further scoring, hut Yale
fought hard. and toward the end Of the
hut the Tigers stood II off successfully.
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