ELI CUBS ALMOST EQUAL RECORD OF 1927 SEXTET

No player on the Freshman Hockey team will have any moments of rest on Saturday afternoon when the whistle blows for the face-off against the Eli yearlings. A comparison of scores is noncommittal, and the experience of last year's Freshman sextet shows that the outcome of a game cannot be considered a certainly.

The inmates of Gore, Smith, and Standish have not yet tasted defeat--nor had the 1926 aggregation until the Blue took them for a fall. The New Haven warriors will come to the Boston Arena with one defeat behind them, and that a close 2-1 whipping at the hands of the Princeton 1927 combination. With this stigma to erase they will not put up any less fight because of the loss of Fred Robinson, their clever left wing, who is out for the season as a result of injuries received in a recent game with St. Paul's School. Four competent substitutes are ready to take his place.

Of the two possible comparisons in scores, one favors Yale and the other the Cambridge men. The Elis beat Newton High 2-1 when their team was not at its best, whereas the Crimson triumphed 7-0. Against St. Paul's, however, the Yale men won 3-1 and the Harvard cubs 2-1. The Harvard team has not had a chance to test its strength against the Princeton puck-chasers who defeated the Eli delegation. It is impossible to say that the odds are on Harvard. The two captains, Coady and Noble, are both not only good defense men but all-round players of the first calibre.