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The Spike or Victoria University College Review 1931

[introduction]

Assembling wolves in raging troups descend.

Thomson

This year the Men's Hockey Club commenced the season with even greater numbers and was enabled to enter eight teams in the Grade Competitions. Unfortunately, right from the commencement of the season casualties have been rife among players in all grades, and this has impaired the strength of the different teams to a great extent. Besides this, one or two players have left the district, so it is not surprising that, although V.U.C. has the largest club in Australasia, only one team, the First Senior B, is champion in its grade. In spite of the season's misfortunes, however, the Club has some very keen and able exponents of hockey in its ranks.

On 3rd June a Five-a-side Tournament was held by the Wellington Hockey Association at Karori for Senior, Junior and Third Grade teams. The Club's Senior A team was absent in Christchurch on this occasion, so that a "scratch" team in the Senior grade had to be gleaned from the two Senior B teams. The team which finally turned out was very proud of the fact that it reached the grade final, where a crack Wellington five defeated it by three goals to nil. The five composed of Junior B players also had the satisfaction of reaching the final, having defeated Kingi Tahiwi's Junior A five in the semi-finals. The Third Grade teams played well, but found their opponents too strong for them.

On the night of 30th May the Senior A team sailed for Christchurch, where they took part in the Annual Inter-University Hockey Tournament, losing to Canterbury College after a very keenly contested game. The Club's Annual Dance was held on 30th May and was voted by all present one of the year's brightest 'Varsity functions.