HOCKEY TEAM SEES HIGH HURDLE OVER TIGERS TOMORROW

With the Redmen from McGill out of the way until next season, the Varsity Hockey team will endeavour to get back into the win column and boost their standing in the International Intercollegiate League when they face Princeton on the Hobey Banker Memorial Rink Saturday night.

Coach Joo Stubbs is taking the same players with him to Tigertown that dressed for the McGill game. This of course means that he will still be without the services of Russ Allen who will not play for the Crimson until after Midyears. Although Allen is an important cog in the Crimson defense, Stubbs feels that his main worry lies with the Crimson offense. He was pleased with the defensive play against McGill last Saturday and by Klevorktan's capable handling of Allen's position.

Practice sessions this week have been almost exclusively devoted to polishing the Crimson offense which failed to score against McGill and which has not functioned smoothly all season. Stubbs is sticking to the same line combinations that he has used since the Christmas vacation. Further experimenting would only make things more confused than they already are.

In Princeton the Crimson is going to encounter a much stronger Tiger outfit than those which they defeated twice during the past two campaigns. If comparative scores mean anything, Harvard has only a slight edge over the Orange and Black. Of five mutual opponents, each shows two victories as against three defeats. Harvard edged B.U. after the latter beat Princeton, but the Tigers subdued the St. Nicks who later took the Crimson 6-3. The Crimson's advantages lies in the fact that they scored more goals against Montreal than did Princeton and had less goals scored on them by McGill.

But Harvard has not yet reached its peak, and should they find themselves against the Tigers, they ought to win by a comfortable margin. If they continue to display the brand of hockey that has characterized their play so far this season, they are in for a busy evening, although a defeat would definitely be considered an upset.