Major Hockey

The recent action at Yale reinstating hockey as a major sport as soon as its arena is completed revives the question of hockey as a major sport at Princeton. For several years hockey has enjoyed the status of a major sport at Harvard and with the recent enactment at Yale, Princeton will be the only member of the Big Three holding this sport in a lower position. The regard in which the sport is held depends largely among the student body on its ranking categorically as either major or minor. Competition with Yale and Harvard in hockey so long as it remains a minor sport at Princeton will react to the inevitable disadvantage of Princeton.

Our facilities in point of coaching and rink have no superiors in the country. The length of the season in hockey is greater than that of any other sport, major or minor, with the exception of crew and the endurance and physical courage demanded by hockey is equal, if not greater, to that required in any sport. The seating capacity of the Rink and the growing popularity of the game in the East form another argument on a purely financial basis.

Hockey answers the requirements of a major sport in every point, and failure to recognize it as such at Princeton means not only that we will lag behind the procession of other universities but that our representatives in that sport will be severely handicapped in intercollegiate competition. We feel that the sentiment of the University, if once aroused, is overwhelmingly in favor of granting it its proper place among the major sports. At the same time we realize that it takes just about an even ton of dynamite to stir the majority of the undergraduates and undergraduate organizations into action. --Daily Princetonian.