Holiday Trip and New Rink Face 80-Man Hockey Squad

Coach Cooney Weiland matched the enthusiasm of 80 prospective Crimson hockey players at the season's first meeting last night in the Varsity Club.

"We now have a rink worthy of the University," he said. "Let's produce a team worthy of the rink."

"There will be real battling for positions this year," Weiland said. "We have a lot of top-notch talent. And a tougher schedule. There will probably be a junior varsity team, but nothing definite has been done yet," he added.

A Christmas holiday trip to Minnesota and Colorado and the second annual Bean Pot Tournament with Boston College, Boston University, and Northeastern, feature a 22-game varsity schedule announced by Athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles.

The only change in the Crimson card besides the addition of Minnesota and Colorado is an away game with Providence College. The regular Pentagonal League home-and-home series with Dartmouth, Brown, Princeton, and Yale will continue.

The varsity will open its 1953-54 season on December 4th in a non-Pentagonal League game with Dartmouth at Hanover. This will be part of the program rededicating Dartmouth's rink. The Crimson helped dedicate the original Dartmouth rink and has been invited to participate in the first game on the newly installed artificial ice.

Last night Weiland asked the squad to do a lot of walking. The team will begin one-hour daily exercises in the Indoor Athletic Building immediately. Practice officially starts the 16th.

"They'll have to bundle up warm out there," said Weiland, referring to the rink, "but maybe someone will take notice and put a roof on for us."

The varsity will use the Soldiers Field rink only for practice, however. All home games will be played in the Boston Garden with the exception of Dartmouth and Brown which are at the North Shore Sports Center in Lynn.

Bolles also announced a 10-game schedule for the freshmen, who will be coached for the first time by John White, former Crimson football, hockey, and baseball star.

The first game on the rink will be against Belmont Hill School on January 13.

The varsity schedule:

December 4, at Dartmouth; 6, at Providence College; 11, Boston College; 15, Boston University; 18, Northeastern; 22, at Minnesota; 23, Minnesota at Hibbing, Minn.; 26 and 28, Colorado at Colorado Springs, Col.; 29-30, at Denver.

January 9, Dartmouth at Lynn, Mass.; 11-12, Boston College, Boston University, and Northeastern in Bean Pot Tourney.

February 2, Northeastern; 6, at Dartmouth; 10, at Brown; 15, Boston College; 23, Brown at Lynn, Mass.; 27, at Yale. March 3, Princeton; 6, Yale.