PURPLE GORE

Whenever Blue and Crimson meet, a clash is inevitable,--even when the outcome is merely purple. The most desperate sort of conflict results when the Blue is represented by a brilliant Yale hockey team with its eyes fixed on the intercollegiate title, and when the Crimson is worn by the kind of hockey team which Coach Winsor knows how to turn out.

The long supremacy of Harvard hockey teams was seriously challenged last year--and finally vindicated only by heroic efforts. If anyone threatens this year, it is Yale. Unbeaten so far by any college sextet, reinforced by several undoubted stars, and victorious over McGill--to whom the University lost in an early season game,--Yale has much confidence in her ability to play Captain Crosby's men to a standstill. Harvard men, nevertheless, think otherwise.

Captain Charles O'Hearn, no doubt, will feel at a loss without his ancient rival George Owen Jr. on the ice,--and the University would like, almost as much as Captain O'Hearn, to see its former Paladin perform. Unfortunately, the paths of glory lead but to graduation. But there are, around Harvard, still a few men who can play hockey-- to use a boastful expression--and perhaps Captain O'Hearn can be consoled. No one wants to smash Yale's dreams of empire, of course--as Mr. Heywood Broun philosophized, "Some of my best friends are Yale men"--but on the other hand, no one wants to disappoint the Bulldogs after bringing them all the way from New Haven. This delicate question, however, can be safely left in the hands of Captain Crosby.