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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Volume 32, No. 18. July 30, 1969

[introduction]

Some three matches in the senior men's hockey championship remain and Vic, the champions for the last three seasons has little chance of retaining its title, but it can still finish second behind Wellington College Old Boys.

The remaining materiel for Vic will be against Wellington College Old Boys, Karori and Petone. Wins should result against Karori and Petone.

The match against Wellington College Old Boys should provide some of the the season's best hockey.

In the past three matches the Vic team has played it has scored 14 goals, six against Petone, 4 against Northern United and 4 against Naenae Old Boys.

By far the best match was against Petone, when in the second half Bruce Judge moved from right wing to centre forward.

This move resulted in a certain amount of confusion as to which Petone defenders should mark him. The centre half who would noras a rule allow the centre forward mally mark a centre forward, would to roam freely, except near the circle.

While it is extremely dangerous to allow a player of Judge's ability to roam free in this manner, on the other hand if a centre half was to mark him then this would detract from the centre half's game.

This movement of Judge to centre forward should, in my opinion, have been made on several other occasions during the season.

Another important aspect of this move is that it contributes to 11-man hockey and gives a more diversified -attack.

Victoria has two representatives in the New Zealand Universities team which is to tour Australia during the August vacation. They are Paul Dentice who plays at inside left and John Scott who plays at left half.