NEW HOCKEY RULINGS CHANGE STYLE OF GAME

Plans for the coming Hockey season are progressing rapidly and will be ready for announcement next Monday when all candidates for the University and Freshman teams will meet at 7.30 o'clock in the Quiet Room of the Union to hear W. H. Claflin '15, Head Coach of Hockey, George Owen Jr. '23, captain, and B. D. Nash '23, manager, discuss prospects. Practice for the University team will begin as soon as there is ice in the Boston Arena, December 4 or shortly thereafter. The game this year will be under somewhat different conditions.

At the recent meeting in New York of the Intercollegiate Ice Hockey Association certain new rules with regard to the game of Hockey were considered and passed. It was felt that the full possibilities of the game were not brought out under the old rulings, and that it might be made considerably faster with certain restrictions removed. It was with this end in view that two new rules have been adopted by the Association.

The first permits a player to "skate on side", in other words the player passing the puck may after passing skate the receiver on side by skating ahead of the other before he touches the puck. This of course facilitates the work of the referee since he will now need only to watch the passer and the puck itself. Heretofore an official under the old rules has had to watch the alignment of the whole forward line.

The second rule permits a player to receive a forward pass provided he himself is within twenty foot of his own goal line. Lines marking the twenty foot limit will be painted on the sideboards of the rink.

It was also suggested that the unlimited substitution and resubstitution of players be allowed. This while a more revolutionary measure--it is forbidden in most professional leagues--is felt to be for the best interests of college hockey in that it will allow more men to take part in the games and will therefore facilitate the business of training the hockey player. With a sport which, unlike football or baseball which have long been established, has not such a long past from which coaches and players may profit, this is a desirable measure in that it will make it easier to train a larger number of players in a shorter space of time.

In addition to these rules six-man hockey is to be continued, and under such a system a good fast game is reasonably assured.