Sextet Whips Nassau 5-1, in League Fray

A renaissance in Harvard hockey may have taken place at Princeton Saturday evening, when the Crimson rinksters plastered the Nassau sextet 5 to 1 for their sixth consecutive victory and a successful entry into 1943 Pentagonal League affairs.

Strictly from hunger in recent years, so far as the League was concerned, the Chaseman served notice on the rest of the loop with a decisive trouncing of the Tigers. Dick Harding, Senior Wing, who has paced the Crimson skaters in scoring all season long, added three goals to his rising total.

Harding Starts Things

It was an unassisted Harding goal, at 14:30 of the first stanza, which opened the scoring after an unexciting opening. The senior member of the Crimson hockey firm of Harding, Harding, and Harding swept through the entire Princeton defense and boat goalie Ned Kelley, who had a fairly good night.

The second period saw the home team speed up the action, but goalie Harding and his stellar defense men held the Nassau at bat without too much trouble. Then Harding (Dick) netted his second tally on a pass from center Al Everts at 11:00, and the Crimson moved out into a 3 to 0 lead, with Olie Taylor in the penalty box, at 19:33 on a solo goal by Captain Johnny Paine.

Harding Again

The Harding-Everts combination clicked for still another score at 4:37 of the third stanza, moving the Crimson four goals who contributed his usual solid performance, netted his goal for the evening on a pass from Alex Macmillan of Coach John Chase's third line, ringing the bell at 8:54. The Princeton score came off the stick of DeYoe at 11:45.

For the Chasemen, it was a pleasant beginning to what may be the most successful ice season in the past four years. Last winter the team won three League contests, two of them over doormat Army, and one at the expense of Princeton near the end of the campaign. Previous to these triumphs, the Crimson sextet had gone winless in the Pentagonal loop since March, 1939.

Tomorrow afternoon New Hampshire's Wildcats come to town for a little action, and the Chasemen should make it seven in a row.