Hockey Outlook for This Winter

The amount of promising material for the University hockey team makes the outlook of winning the intercollegiate championship this season at least as promising as that of last year. Last season the whole defence remained intact from the team of 1907 and it was necessary to fill and four positions in the forward line. This year the opposite is true; all the forwards of the 1908 University team are back, while the three defence men have been lost by graduation. With a strong defence built up from last year's second and Freshman teams there is no reason why the University team should not be successful.

The greatly increased opportunity of practice will be of inestimable value in the work just before the championship games the latter part of February. Except for a short trip to New York during the Christmas vacation, the team has been forced to depend entirely for its practice on weather conditions and poor ice was a great hindrance in perfecting team-play for the last few years. This year, however, with the completion of the Boston Arena by the middle of January, an excellent opportunity will be afforded of practicing on an indoor rink. Following the plan of last year, arc-lights are to be placed over the rinks in the Stadium, so that practice may be held in the evening.