Fighting hard when confronted with the spectacle of defeat, but with their team-play woefully ragged, the University Freshmen were defeated by the Yale cubs Saturday by the score of 4-3. The stellar work of the Blue which centered around Captain O'Hearn was too much for the yearling team.

When the rival teams stepped onto the ice shortly after 2 o'clock the Crimson was a decided favorite, but instead of making the best of its opportunity to score early over the supposedly weak Yale cubs, the team seemed dazed and powerless before the brilliant dashes of O'Hearn who showed the utmost self-confidence from the moment the puck first dropped between the two centers until he went off the ice a victor at the end of the third period. Norris at coverpoint was, next to O'Hearn,' the best Yale man on the ice and his tally in the second period put Yale into a momentary lead and proved the decisive point of the game.

University Slow at Start

Rather slow skating and dazed nervous playing featured the work of the University yearlings in the beginning of the first period, and as a result O'Hearn after several unsuccessful dashes, penetrated the defense and sent a well-placed shot through Sherman, Crimson goal tend. H. W. Reid, substituting for Walker, collaborated with Crosby in tieing the score a moment later. Coming down on Brokaw, the Yale goal, Crosby shot only to have the puck rebound from Brokaw's legs; Reid stabbed at the puck lying in front of the goal to have it stopped again, and Crosby, following up his first shot drove the puck home. The rest of the first period and all of the second was marked by a brilliant dash for a score by Norris, Yale's coverpoint, by good playing on the part of Reid, culminating in the Crimson's second tally, and by the phenomenal skating of O'Hearn who served to paralyze the Crimson defense every time he took the puck and whose goal toward the end of the second period put the Blue again into the lead.

The yearlings came back full of fight in the last period, but Yale was the first to score on a clever shot from the wing by Farnsworth, substituting for Dunning, which put his team two points ahead. The rest of the game was merely a question of whether the University could overcome the Bulldog's lead, and it is of great credit to the men who played that up to the last minute the result was in doubt; one point the Crimson did indeed secure when Reid shot the puck past Brokaw for the final score.