The Dartmouth hockey team which last week succeeded Princeton as the Pentagonal Hockey League champion wrote a number of records into the book that will quite likely be there for years to come. Under normal conditions, the players who set the marks might break them next season themselves, but Jack Riley is already in the Navy and Coach Eddie Jeremiah of the Indians reports that Dick Rondeau and Bill Harrison will likewise be in uniform before the ice freezes in Davis Rink next winter.
The Hanover skaters swept through the league schedule without a defeat, winning eight games and aggregating eight goals per contest against some pretty sound opposition. Their mark of 64 goals and 66 assists, for a total of 130 points, may become legendary as the years roll by. On an over-all basis, the Green won 22 and lost two, stretching a winning streak over 19 games. Were a national tournament possible, the Indian at full strength would be an odds-on favorite to win.
Rondeau Nets 40 Points
Setting the pace was Dick Rondeau, who registered 40 points in the individual scoring race to win it hands down. In a four-team circuit last year, Yale's Rog Hazen, an unusually able skater, won the title with 14 and his nearest competitor had 11. Rondeau's points in a league of four teams totalled 33 this year. Yale won its second victory over Harvard last week to clinch the runner-up spot in the standings. The Elis clearly had the second best team in the circuit although held to an even split in their series with Princeton. The loss of Captain George Young and Dick Poole from the first and second lines of the team which won the 1941 title apparently affected Princeton more seriously than had been thought when the firing began last December. The Tigers wound up in third place with an entry that was never quite in the thick of the battle. Harvard; which swapped coaches in mid-season, improved considerably as the campaign progressed but still had to be content with fourth place, while the Army was somewhat outclassed in its first year in the circuit and failed to win a game
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