A football was used in lieu of a puck to demonstrate the passing, movements and arrangement of players that they should understand once the Bears got onto the ice.
[3] Bates and Colby, the two in-state rivals for Bowdoin, had already adopted ice hockey as a major sport and there was an urgency from some quarters for the Polar Bears not to fall behind.
With the huge support it was hoped that the effort to secure an indoor rink would soon be adopted by the school but those plays were only in their planning stages.
[6] The two succeeding games had to be postponed due to a lack of ice but the weather cooled down enough over the weekend to allow the first match with Bates to be held.
They picked up the pace in the middle frame, managing to get 14 shots on goal, but the puck refused to enter the Garnet cage.
After some hard work and fortunate ice time, the Polar Bears returned triumphantly by sandwiching a pair of wins over Colby around a second loss to Boston University.
With a 2-goal lead, Bowdoin played a defensive game for the rest of the match and were content to lob the puck down into the Mules' end.
Because Colby had twice defeated Bates previously, Bowdoin was sitting atop the standings and a win over the Garnet would give the title outright.
Near the end of the second, reserve player Parker got the puck out of a scrimmage in front of the Garnet cage and lifted it into the top corner of the net.