Crippled Varsity Challenges Favored Yale Sextet Tonight

The varsity hockey team, which has run into a barrage of late season injuries will try to overcome these difficulties and also to right a 4 to 1 wrong inflicted upon it at New Haven last Saturday in the final hockey game of the season against Yale at the Arena tonight. The Freshman teams of Harvard and the Blue will open the festivities at 7 p.m., and the varsity game should get under way in the vicinity of 9 p.m.

Though Myles Huntington and Bob DiBlasio are still not entirely recovered from previous injuries, both will play against Yale. The only an definitely out of action is third line wing Shorty Minot; his place will probably be taken tonight by sophomore Jimmy Welch.

It will be the 101st game in the 50-year-old hockey series between Harvard and Yale, and it is of crucial importance for both teams. A Bulldog Victory will give them a tie for the Pentagonal League crews and a Harvard victory will not only keep the Crimson out of the Pentagonal cellar but also split the annual series with Yale at one victory apiece.

Elis Have Edge

Yale has a season record of 14 wins and five losses, and the Crimson boasts nine victories and eight losses.

It should be a close game. Though the varsity at full strength is probably potentially a better team than Yale, it will not be at full strength tonight. Consequently, if anybody should be favored, it is Yale, because they have already beaten the Crimson ones, and will be at full strength for this game.

For the entire first line, center Huntington and wings Dave Abbot and Lew Preston, and for goalie Johnnie Chase, it will be the last college hockey game of their careers. Huntington, Abbot, and Preston have been playing regularly for three years, and Chase, after playing goal off and on last season, took over permanently this season.

The lineups: HARVARD  YALE Chase  G  Burns Bliss  LD  Hart Burke  RD  F. Kittredge Abbot  RWL  Clapp(C) Huntington(C)  C  Bray Preston  LWR  Armour

Harvard spares: J. Kittredge, Anderson, DiBlasio, Marshall, Timpson, Carman, Hatch, Harris, Lawson, Welch.

Harvard spares: J. Kittredge, Anderson, DiBlasio, Marshall, Timpson, Carman, Hatch, Harris, Lawson, Welch.