Complacent Harvard hockey supporters were given a severe shock Saturday when an overconfident, favored, but unaggressive Crimson sextet went down to humiliating defeat before a Yale team that fought all the way, outplaying and outmanouvering its ancient rival to a final score of 5 to 1.
Thus Yale won the first grip on the current series which still has one, possibly two more games to go. Harvard will journey to New Haven next Saturday in an effort to even the count and if the Crimson players come out on top a third game will be played in New Haven the following Wednesday. To make this third game necessary Harvard will have to show an entirely different brand of hockey from that which it exhibited before a capacity, crowd at the Garden Saturday.
Confidence Ruins Harvard
Harvard seemingly had assumed a much too confident attitude. A goal by Wood after about five minutes of the opening period had passed strengthened this excessive assurance so that when Yale came back with two goals in the next few minutes the Crimson was entirely lost. Yale immediately became aggressive and began to display some of the finest amateur hockey playing seen in the Garden this year.
The Elis passed with accuracy and directness and completely baffled the Harvard defence with their speed and feigning tactics. Harvard, on the other hand, could do nothing better than take weak, long shots at the net which Farrell had little trouble deflecting. In back-checking and poke-checking and in covering their positions--in fact, In practically every department of the game--the Eli were far superior to their dazed Cantabrigian opponents.
Bostwick and Captain Luce were the two men to score in the first period im- der 1, Patterson 2, eGowan 2, Horwits 6. Goals from fouls, Moushegian, Pattison, Holland, Booth, Beane, Patterson. McGowan Horwits. Referees--Kelliher and Swaffield. Time of halves--20 minutes.
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