HOCKEY NUMBERS

The announcement has come from Coach Claflin of the hockey team that the members of his squad are to wear numbers in all the games played this year. This decision will be gladly received in the University, marking, as it does another stop in the advancement of a more personal interest in the major sports.

There was a time when a game was played entirely for the game's sake; the spectator was expected to be concerned only in the question of ultimate victory or defeat, and not in the performance of individual contestants; it was a question of teams, not persons. But of late there has been a gradual change of policy--a crystallization of willingness on the part of coaches to see the game from the onlooker's point of view. All branches of sport are beginning to realize the added value to be attained by identifying the players, thus making them human beings, rather than indistinguishable coks in the wheels of a machine.