Resuming their League schedule after nearly four weeks of midyear lull, the Varsity puckmen will face off with a dangerous Dartmouth six tonight at the Boston Garden in the opening game of a very tough February ice campaign.

Tonight's game with the Indians is the first of a two game series, the second to be played at Hanover on March 1. This tilt will not be the only worry for Coach Hodder this week either, for on Friday his charges will journey down to New Haven to take on the Elis in another League game.

Dartmouth Strong

Dartmouth, at present leading the Quadrangular League with two wins and no defeats, has a fast veteran squad and should provide a severe test for the Crimson. Although the Indians stand one notch below Harvard in the International League, they have a very smooth-working outfit which, according to Hanover supporters has failed to show its true potentialities in the League race so far.

Particularly hard for the Hoddermen to stop will be the Dartmouth first line of Foster, Kelly, and Walsh. Foster and Walsh, between them accounted for all but one of the Big Green's tallies in the 5 to 3 Carnival victory over Princeton at Hanover last Saturday. Coached by the former Bruin Cubs star Eddie Jeremiah, the Dartmouth squad will present a line-up very nearly the same as the one that took over the Crimson sextet decisively in two games last season.

All in all the next few weeks are shaping up into what looks like the most gruelling workout that any Crimson team has had to face this year. "A practically suicidal schedule" was the way Coach Clark Hodder expressed it last night, and a glance at the records of the opposition supports his statement. Yale, the Friday ticket although at present in seventh place in the International League, has a very fast and experienced outfit that should either start clicking very soon or become the mystery of this year's College ice season.

McGill Next Week

Then next Monday the squad will entrain for Canada to take on Montreal on Tuesday and McGill on Wednesday. McGill, leading the League with a clean slate, is, of course tough opposition under any circumstances. Montreal, present cellar incumbent, will be the only easy team to beat that the Hoddermen will face in the next two weeks.

Despite the troublesome days ahead, Coach Hodder did not seem pessimistic yesterday. "Of course we have an inexperienced team," he said, "and so it is pretty hard to make predictions. But if we don't make any mistakes and play our best game of hockey, I think we have a good chance from now on, I've seen both Dartmouth and Yale play. They are both fast teams and they can both outskate us, but if we play our best I think we can beat them."