Practice for the University hockey squad will start today with a short two hour session on the Boston Garden ice. The squad has been divided into two groups, each of which will practice for an hour.

All of the men who reported for the first meeting of Varsity candidates are reporting for practice today. It is expected that before a few days are over, Coach Stubbs will make a cut in the squad and start a more intensive practice for a smaller group.

With only a few weeks of preparation for the season's first major clash in the McGill game on Saturday, December 17, the squad is expected to go through a period of hard drilling on the fundamentals of the game. A veteran forward line in Robert Saltonstall, Jr. '33, Ian Baldwin '33, and J. W. Putnam '33, a veteran goalie, P. deB. deGive '34, and many other men from last year's Varsity Squads, seem to favor another successful season for the Varsity sextet. Among the men from last year's Freshman team who will form good material for the Varsity are M. L. Pruyn '35, wing on the 1935 sextet, W. L. Lincoln '35, W. P. Watts '35, and F. A. Recce '35, who played in the goal last year.

Prospects for the sextet this season are considered good since the number of regulars left over from last year, and the quality of the men from the Freshman team is enough to insure a strong squad from which Coach Stubbs can build up the first and second teams with material to spare.

The season this year includes a list of 12 games. The annual series with Yale will be held on Saturday, February 25, Saturday, March 4, and Wednesday, March 8. Two games will be played with Princeton and McGill while clashes with Dartmouth, Brown, Toronto, and M.I.T. are also on the schedule. No games will be played during the Mid-Year examination period, as has been the custom in former years and practice during this time will probably be lighter in character than usual.

Saltonstall, who played a hard and fast game for the Crimson last year is captain of the 1932-33 sextet.