SATURDAY'S HOCKEY VICTORY

Harvard men who saw the McGill contest on Saturday were not disappointed in the showing of Captain Huntington's team. Against what was said to be the best amateur hockey combination in America Harvard played a hard, fast clean game which gradually wore down the more experienced Canadian players. To beat McGill at its own sport is especially gratifying after the two defeats of past years. The CRIMSON congratulates the seven on its well-earned victory and looks forward eagerly to the seventeenth, when Yale comes to the Arena. Defeated by Princeton, the New Haven team will exert its utmost to win from Harvard, but it is doubtful if Yale can develop an attack equal to that of McGill.

In connection with Saturday's game the CRIMSON wishes to call its readers' attention to an editorial in the McGill Daily which, by the way, had its Saturday morning edition on sale at the Arena during the game. The Montreal paper says: "The hockey game tonight in the Boston Arena between the teams of Harvard and McGill is one of more than ordinary interest. It is more than an ordinary intercollegiate contest; it is international. While it is a struggle for victory, it is nevertheless one of most friendly rivalry which must have its effect in producing a close and happy connection between the two great universities concerned. Athletic contests between the large American and Canadian universities are perhaps all too rare. Indeed hockey is the only major sport in which meetings have yet been possible, for the American football rules differ largely from ours, and their track season is not autumn, but spring. Hockey contests are therefore watched with unusual interest by graduates and students."

Harvard holds an unique position among the larger colleges of the United States in its relations with Canadian colleges, represented particularly by McGill. Back in the eighties a football game between the two was an annual event, but hockey, being strictly a Canadian game and of growing popularity here, took the place of football in 1907. Since then the two colleges have come into ever closer relations. The clean playing on Saturday is the best indication that this friendly feeling will continue year by year and so strengthen a bond of international sportsmanship.