New-York tribune., 1911-12-17
YALE SEVEN FORMIDABLE
Hockey Stars from New Haven
to Meet St. PauI'S Boys.
SEASON OPENS THIS WEEK
Princeton Will Play Williams on
St. Nicholas Rink ice Next
Thursday Night.

Thc indoor hockey season will be ushered
| I'm this week with two sensational mdtches'
| I'm which four Of the foremost college teams
will participate. ON Wednesday night, at
| the ST Nicholas Rink, the Yale varsity
seven will meet the team from 81. Paul s,
Of Concord y. H.. the most marvellous ag-
eregation of Junior puck chasers I'm the
country to-day ST. Paul's is a vertable
nursery for hockey players Captain Kay
Of Princeton: Harman. Of Yale, and Hunt
ington. Of Harvard, all learned the art OF
effective stick handling aud skating on
the rinks az Concord. while six former st.
Paul boys are on the Princeton team. two
or three wear the Blue of Yale and four
the Crimson Of Harvard.
No organization I'm the country has 80
many asprants for hockey honors 10 draw
from as St Paul's There are seven Kinks
al Concord. and twenty-seven organized
teams play a series of i've games each
for the school championship each season.
These players receive the coaching OF
graduates who have become stars on the
various varsity teams.
Yale will be represented I'm the game on
Wednesday night by an aggregation Of
stars. who intend making a determined
effort this year to win the intercollegiate
championship, now held by Cornell The
PLAYERS have been coached this season by
lanes Ryrne the Canadian professional.
who developed and trained the ST. Michaers
College seven of Montreal acknowledged
to he the champion amateur team Of Can
ada.
Captain Archer Harman Will depend Inns
season more upon young and enthusiastic
PLAYERS than seasoned veterans to build up
his team Carhart goal. and COX, rover
are the only veterans available. aside from
himself Arthur Howe. the football cap
tain, and Dick Merritt. the baseball cap
tain, were members Of the team last year,
but have decided not 10 play hockey this
season Howe's parents are averse to his
continuing in college athletics now that the
football season is closed, and Merritts
baseball work will begin in January. and
ne is unwilling to delegate his work as
captain any longer.
The varsity team. which was selected
from a squad Of seventy young players.
includes besides those above mentioned,
Morton. Chauncey. Wainwright Gore and
Scully. Yale's famous football tackle. on
the forward line. The Eli team has played
several practice games at the ST Nicholas
Rink against the Wanderers, New York
Athletic club and the ST Nicholas teams
and acquitted itself "rcditably.
The Princeton team which plays Williams
al the local rink on Thursday night, is un-
questionably the peer of any hockey aggre-
CATION that has ever worn the Black and
Yellow. out Of forty-hve candidates who
tried for places on the team the following
were selected: Captain Kay and Kalb-
fesch OF last years team, Kuhn, Blair,
Kilner and "Jobe" Baker the sensational
young player who captainod the St Paul
team when II beat Princeton two years ago.
Williams may be depended upon to send
sturdy lot Of players here for their an
nual game. Considerable hockey rivalry eX-
lists between the two colleges and a splen-
ddly contested game is inevitably the re-
suit of a meeting Of the two teams.