Hockey Varsity Favored To Wallop Tigers Again

Coach Cooney Weiland's hockey team has already nailed down its eighth Ivy League title in ten years and has already mashed Princeton 6-1 in seasonal competition. Tonight's hockey game down in New Jersey can do little more than drop the toothless Tigers deeper into the League cellar and help keep the Crimson skaters in shape for the forthcoming E.C.A.C. tournament in early March.

Princeton boasts one scoring threat in John Cook, a fine but shell-shocked goalie in Bill Hill, and nothing else. When Princeton was in Cambridge two weeks ago, a virtually non-existent defense allowed Crimson forwards to swarm all over Hill (55 saves) and the Tiger offense managed only nine shots all evening.

Crimson Goalle Returns

Tonight's contest (if you want to call it that) may be even more one-sided with the return of first-string goalie Godfrey Wood and Billy Lamarche to the Crimson line-up. Both players missed the earlier Tiger game.

The varsity will be playing at full strength except for the permanent loss of defenseman Harry Howell through scholastic ineligibility. Howell's enforced absence should mean little tonight but poses a serious personnel problem for Welland in the E.C.A.C. tournament.

Offensively, Weiland will keep senior Dick Blakey (seven goals in four games) on the first line with Ike Ikauaiks and captain Tim Taylor. With Lamarche back on the second line, Gene Kinasewich will play on the third unit with Billy Fryer and Gerry Jorgenson.

Three Good Lines

Kinasewich, who has been called "Harvard's finest hockey player" by Boston College hockey mentor John Kelly, will provide Weiland with scoring punch on all three lines. Princeton and Yale on Saturday should give the new Kinasewich unit the chance it needs to work as a unit before tournament time.

Princeton's one first-class forward, John Cook, currently leads the Ivy League in scoring with 19 points and could supply minor heroics for Tiger fans tonight. The high scoring senior amass and five points in his last outing. But that performance was against Dartmouth, which equals Princeton as a league loser. Cook was held scoreless by Dava Johnston and others in Cambridge.