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THE SPORTING SCENE

Some Hockey and Football Notes

Watson Rink night well he dubbed Harvard's Deep Freeze without fear of offending its 200 official backers who will watch the opening Ivy League game with Dartmouth and Harvard tomorrow evening. Certainly the athletic official responsible for printing the tickets to the game wouldn't mind, for he has taken considerable pains to warn the spectators before coming that the sink is not heated.

Printed on the bottom of the green ticket in the note!

"THE RINK IS NOT HEATED."

In a less subtle vein he might have added:

WATSON RINK NEEDS A HEATING PLANT. IT COSTS ABOUT $25,000. IT NEEDS AN OFFICIAL SCORING CLOCK.

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Among the 200 specially invited spectators will be Frederick A. Russell '99, who played goalie on the first Crimson sextet to face Yale. The year was 1900. Russell, who had tended the nets during the seasons of 1898 and 1899, was then a first year law student.

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Varsity goalie and captain Charlie Flynn has been named to the second team of the Holiday Hockey Carnival. The varsity lost its four games in the Christmas tournament.

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Despite considerable interest here and at Center college for a renewal of the famous football rivalry between the "Praying Colonels" and the Crimson, the idea has been tabled indefititely. "I doubt very much if we will ever renew the rlvelry, at least not in the foreseeable future," Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, explained.

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