The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-03-14
PRINCETON SEEKS
NEW HOCKEY RINK
Amherst Students Are Strongly in Favor
of Permitting Summer Ball Playing
New Style of Rowing Shell Be-
ing Tried at Pennsylvania Uni.

| The brilliant record of the Princeton
hockey team during the season just COM
pleted has led to an agitation for the
building of an artificial ice rink at
| Princeton before next winter. The idea
found favor with both undergraduates
and alumni two years ago but beyond
securing estimates for rink and frcez-
| ing plant nothing was done. The Prince
ton Alumni Weekly in discussing the re-
vived project states editorially:
"You can't play hockey without ice,
and while Lake Carnegie usually freezes
over three or four times during the win
ter, the ice ordinarily does not remain
long enough to afford regular practice.
In this sport we are at an obvious dis
advantage in the competitions with our
chief opponents in the farther north lati-
tudes of New England In the absence
of ice at Princeton, to get their practice
our hockey players are obliged to go to
the rink in New York, but they can do
this only two or three times week,
and that at the latter end of the sea.
son. Under these circumstances it is
extremely difficult to develop PLAYERS.
and particularly team-play. There are
other serious objections to New York rs
the scene of our participation in this
branch of sport, All the arguments for
playing college games on college grounds
hold with peculiar force in this game.
Hockey is too well established as an ex-
cellent college game TO be abandoned,
but if it is to be continued at Prince
ton, we must have our own rink. Yale
has a rink in New Haven and Harvard
has one in Boston. With rink at
Princeton, home-and-home games could
be arranged as in the case of basketball
and football"
The record of the Princeton seven in
winning the intercollegiate championship
under these adverse training conditions
was an exceedingly meritorious perform
ance. Aside from the Harvard team
none of the eastern college sevens were
able to check the fast and clever indi-
vidual and team-play of the Tigers. In
all - games were played, and of these
but three were lost. Harvard won one
of the three contests scheduled and OF
tawa college won both games against
Princeton, but only after exceedingly
close and by extra period struggles. !
That the Tigers should force the Cana |
dian collegians to the limit 10 win is the |
best evidence of the calihre of the Prince |
ton seven of l9l3-l4.
The seasons record including both the |
intercollegiate and exhibition games fol- |
lows: Princeton 8, st. Paul's school o; |
Princeton 5, Toronto 2; Princeton (, |
Boston A. A. 2: Princeton 2, Ottawa 4; |
Princeton ., Cornell L; Princeton 2, Dart |
mouth o; Princeton 5, Army o; Prince
ton l, Harvard 2; Princeton s, Yale 3; |
Princeton 3, Yale l Princeton 4, Har- |
ward 9; Princeton 4, Harvard l.; Prince |
ton 2, Ottawa 3.
In total goals scored, the Orange and |
Black team more than double the figures |
Of its opponents. In the 10 games |
played Princeton netted 81 goals TO her |
opponents %. This was due in great /
part to the dashing play and speed of
Captain Kuhn and ''Hobey" Baker. Not /
including the final game with Ottawa,
each of these players scored Is goals:
more than half of the total record for
the season. 1t is probable that the rec
ord of the Princeton seven of the pres
ent season will not be duplicated for
several years at least, even should the
contemplated rink be built during the
coming summer.
In connection with the intercollegiate
hockey season which has just terminated
there is considerable discussion among
the colleges most interested relative to
reducing the number of players from
seven to six. This plan, (which devel-
oped in Canada several years ago, was
brought about by the necessary financial
curtailment in professional hockey cir
cles where big salaries We're paid the
Canadian stars. 1t was also tried out
this winter by the teams of the ANA
teur Hockey league in New York during
the second half of the season with fair
success. Where Kinks are comparatively Il
small six-man teams permit of a faster
game than when IA players are on the
ice.
A poll taken among the leading college
seyens of the East shows that ma
iority of the captains are in favor OF
the reduction in the number of players.
Those who favor the plan include Cap
tain Heron Of the Yale seven; Capt.
K. M. Kimball of the Amherst team;
Captain n. d. Mcleod of the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology squad
Capt. ID. w. Jones of the Massachusetts
Agricultural college seven, and Captain
o. M. Clark of the Cornell team. Cap