Big Player Shortage Marks First Radcliffe Hockey Tilt

Things came to a desperate pass last Friday on the Radcliffe Quadrangle as the 'Cliffe Hockey Varsity began its season.

Minus one goalie, two hockey sticks, and five men, for the year's first game, international Students vs. Varsity, the players were forced to bring out the little white pinny-jackets and field bisexual teams.

The 18 hockey players solved further physical difficulties by figuring even odds and combining teams, three men to a side. Careful calculations in team makeups produced an even fight, with the game ending up a draw, 1 to 1.

No score was made during the first half as the two teams carefully felt each other out; Roddy Johnson '61 driving home the first goal for Radcliffe early in the second period. The score was balanced in the last fifteen minutes of the period by Radcliffe hockey captain, Carol Jones '49, who scored for the opposing team by kicking into her own goal.

"Ubiquitous l'ete" Harbury 3G who hails from 'Holland, paced play for the foreign students, covering goalie position and fullback simultaneously with powerful 50-yard drives from the back line. India supplied the remaining five players: H.M. Dharansey '52, Noshi Actenosallas '52, Kalla Neolakantadas, MIT, C.R. Mitra, MIT, and Homi Mihta, Babson.

"This is terrifle," said one Radcliffe spectator, "front line screams in Indian, and the back line answers in Dutch."

Miss Elizabeth Olney, hockey instructor, did not allow herself to be dazzled by the foreigners' play. "See that rollin," she commented, "the way he threw that ball in isn't legal in this country."

Yesterday the Annex team faced Jackson College at Medford, and remaining games will be with Pine Manor, Nov. 9, Pembroke, Nov. 12, both on the Quad; and Boston Hockey Club, and Regis Junior College.