In its first game of the intercollegiate series the University hockey team will play Columbia on the St. Nicholas Rink, New York, this evening at 8.15 o'clock.

Although the University team's work on Thursday afternoon was encouraging the team as a whole is not as far advanced as at this time last year. Since the recess the forwards, however, have improved materially in stick work and in ability to follow and keep possession of the puck. Townsend and Macleod follow back well, but the other forwards are slow in starting.

The development of the University team has been severely handicapped by lack of ice, so that the chances for victory this evening are slightly in favor of the Columbia team which has played several games and practiced regularly for more than a month on the St. Nicholas Rink. Last Saturday the Columbia team won from Princeton by the score of 4 to 2, but was defeated by the same score on Thursday night by the St. Nicholas Club.

The teams will line up as follows: HARVARD.  COLUMBIA. Pell, l.e.  r.e., Knight Townsend, l.c.  r.c., Brady Macleod, r.e.  l.c., Armstrong M. Newhall, r.e.  l.e., Miller D. Newhall, c.p.  c.p., Jackson Willetts, p.  p., Willis Ivy, g.  g., Easton