Hockey, men's
Look of the Game
College and town teams across the Maritime provinces in the late 1890s and early 1900s played two halves instead of three periods, and skated seven players instead of six. As in other sports, there were no substitutes; all players were on the ice for the duration of the game. As seen in the photographs of Mount Allison’s teams, hockey gear was sparse. An unidentified writer reminisced in an anniversary edition of The Argosy (9 March 1940) on how hockey looked at Mount Allison at the turn of the century:
"Hockey was then played with a seven man team, a rover, behind the centre, making the seventh man. The defence men were named point and cover-point; they were usually bulky fellows and supposed to do a lot of hard checking. The game was marred in those days by a great deal of long lifting from one end of the rink to the other with the forwards on both sides loafing near their opponents' goal, instead of skating back and back-checking."
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