HOCKEY SQUAD CUT TO TWENTY-THREE BY COACH STUBBS

After a week of preparatory touch football practice and four actual work-outs on the Garden ice Coach Joseph Stubbs yesterday pruned down his group of hockey candidates to a tentative first squad of 23 men.

The cut, coming earlier than usual, was made in order to give the Crimson hockey mentor plenty of time to experiment with a first team before the initial test of the season against Boston University on December 18. The sessions up until now have been for the most part experimental practices during which Coach Stubbs considered each man individually. Starting today however he will begin to select the sextet that will represent the Crimson on the ice this fall.

Among the 23 men retained six are lettermen from last year, Captain E. T. Putnam ocC, S. L. Batchelder '31, John Cross '30, C. B. Lakin '30, J. B. Garrison '31, and G. C. Holbrook '30. Seven men from the Freshman team of last year including the captain, C. C. Cunningham '32, also remain on the University squad. The others are W. H. Crosby '32, F. R. Stubbs '32, C. D. Draper '32, E. E. Wendell '32, E. A. Mays '32, and W. B. Wood Jr. '32.

The remaining members of the squad include men who failed to make their letter last year and some last year's second team men. This number is, made up of Harwood Ellis '31, star goalie of the 1931 sextet, M. H. Hale, Jr. '32, Sumner Putnam '31, H. D. Everett '31, T. W. Hallowell '31, F. A. Harding '31, F. A. Martin '32, C. E. McGregor, Jr. '32, R. S. Ogden '31 and F. M. Pruyn '31.