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This fact, coupled with the great interest shown in hockey at Harvard, especially since the building of the Boston Arena, has provided what seem to us the essentials of a major sport; namely, a well-established and definite season, and a substantial backing, financial and otherwise. Both of these hockey has, in some ways more completely than one or two of the major sports...
...matter is the remarkable success which has followed hockey teams at Harvard ever since they took the place of ice-polo in 1897. Five championships, one tie for first place and never finishing lower than second in the intercollegiate league, is a record we think unapproached by any other sport at Harvard. Under the present system of coaching, unusually strong ever since hockey has been played here, we believe that our teams are more or less independent of the facilities of the Arena, and that they will continue as heretofore: entirely representative of Harvard...
...seems to us that there is every reason for the recognition of the sport as Mr. Thayer proposes. We hope that the Student Council will uphold the apparently strong feeling of the graduates, and that in this way hockey, one of our prettiest and most popular sports will be put on a basis where it can reach its highest efficiency...
First some figures in regard to the number taking up the sport. Leaving out the Varsity squad there was last winter 22 scrub hockey teams, on which 230 men played. Twenty-one other colleges have organized hockey teams, among them those with whom we compete in one or more of the major sports. Thirty-two private schools support teams and build up available material, later on, for college teams. There are forty-four public schools with teams and from this source also many players become available for college teams...
...sport itself covers a period of four months, December, January, February, and March, a longer one than any of the other four sports, and comes at a time of year when out door sports generally are out of the question, and does not interfere with any of the other squads. The game itself requires the best physical condition, great activity, mental alertness, and being thoroughly at home on skates...