EFFICIENT HOCKEY REFEREES

The refereeing of hockey games during the past season and several previous seasons as well has been unsatisfactory. The application of rules has varied with the various officials, and penalties have been lax. With the intercollegiate committees in football and track as models, there is little excuse for the continuation of this inefficiency.

At present the opposing captains agree with some difficulty upon an available and seemingly competent official for each game. The choice is desultory, and as a result the standards of the game are not uniform. What hockey requires is an intercollegiate committee to fix the rules, and to either appoint officials for the several contests or draw up a list of competent men from which such officials would be chosen. If the other colleges do not yet see the need of change, Harvard, Yale and Princeton at least should organize a committee of this nature to govern their own series.