McGILL DEFEATED IN HOCKEY

The University hockey team, playing a game which for all-round excellence has hardly been equalled at the Arena this year shut out the previously undefeated McGill team there on Saturday evening by a score of 3 to 0. The victory was a decisive one, and more than made up for the 5 to 2 defeat suffered at the hands of the same team last year.

Added to the University men's impregnable defensive work, which was even better than in the Princeton game, there was a concerted speed and team-work in attack, and an ability to carry the puck out of the corners which showed an almost unbelievable improvement over the work of a week ago. Furthermore, each member of the team seemed to outdo himself individually. To mention the men who played excellently would be to mention all seven. There were two, however, whose work was really phenomenal and who more than any of the others proved McGill's undoing. These were Huntington and Gardner.

Huntington's Great Game.

Huntington played one of the finest forward games seen on the rink this year. Skating hard and continuously, he kept with the puck throughout the game, and was always where he was most needed. Time and again the McGill forward combination, when they had made a start down the ice were broken up by his body checking and stick-work as he came up from behind; and he often blocked off the dashes of Rankin, the heavy McGill coverpoint. In addition to his defensive work, Huntington scored two out of the three goals. About half way through the first half, after the forwards had carried the puck down the ice, he caged the first goal with a shot which struck Rankin's skate and bounded in. Again, two minutes before the close of the game, when McGill was playing five men in the forward line, he took the puck away from Scott on a clever piece of stick-work, carried it by Masson, and drawing Warwick out from his goal, shot it past him for the third and last score of the game.

The other goal was made by Blackall early in the second half on a dash the length of the rink. He carried the puck through the whole McGill team, fooling the defence, who expected him to pass, and easily pushed it by Warwick. Blackall and Willets were strong on the defence, but nevertheless McGill was continually shooting at Gardner; and it was his work in blocking these shots which made possible a shut out. Thirty stops were placed to his credit, many of which were made on fast and accurate shots by Thompson and Scott, and two or three on quick shots from scrimmages close to the goal. None of the forwards could equal Huntington, although all played consistently good games. Pierce especially showed great improvement in his offensive work.

McGill Clearly Outclassed.

McGill did not seem to be as strong as against the B. A. A. in Christmas recess. It was handicapped by the absence of Captain Sargent, and Scott who was such a sensation in the B. A. A. game could not get started. Whether three men were played on the forward line as in the first half or five as in a large part of the second, it could not pass the University defence, although it kept play in the University's end of the rink the majority of the time, and had many more shots than the University men. There was a great deal of interruption throughout the game due to forward passing, and three goals, one made by McGill and two by the University were not counted because of it. Considering the speed of the game there was remarkably little roughness, Although a number of two minute penalties were inflicted on members of each team.

The summary: HARVARD.  MCGILL. Sortwell, l.e.  r.e., Smith, Ryley Duncan, l.c.  r.c., Wilson Huntington, r.c.  l.c., Thompson Pierce, r.e.  l.e., Scott Blackall, c.p.  c.p., Rankin Willetts, p.  p., Masson Gardner, g.  g., Warwick

Score--Harvard, 3; McGill, 0. Referee--Roberts, McGill. Assistant referee--Heron, Yale. Goal umpires--H. C. Leslie '11, and Reid, McGill. Timers--S. T. Hicks '10, Brown, B. A. A. and Hull, McGill. Time--20-minute halves.

Score--Harvard, 3; McGill, 0. Referee--Roberts, McGill. Assistant referee--Heron, Yale. Goal umpires--H. C. Leslie '11, and Reid, McGill. Timers--S. T. Hicks '10, Brown, B. A. A. and Hull, McGill. Time--20-minute halves.