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Brains & Short Bursts. Toronto's strength, over & above brawling brawn, lies in its fast, brainy centers (the quarterbacks of hockey). One is Syl Apps, 34, who once thought of becoming a clergyman. This season, afraid that Apps was slowing down, the Leafs traded five good men to the Chicago Black Hawks for pint-sized (150 Ibs.) Max Bentley, one of the most skilled stick-handlers in the game. But Apps, the playmaker, could still show dazzling speed in short bursts; and the Leafs had Bentley, too, and a young bulldog-type center called Teeder Kennedy...
Army's bone-crushers loom as a threat to the Varsity's physical well-being if nothing more, while Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale are all powerful opponents, relying on brains as well as brawn. Return engagements with B.U. and B.C. will provide little let-up between these Ivy League games...
Toronto has brawn, getting by on what one rival manager calls "bull strength and ignorance." Montreal has Maurice Richard (TIME, March 3), still probably the game's No. 1 player; Boucher's up-&-coming Rangers have speed and depth; Detroit the league's best defense. The Boston Bruins, though weak on defense, have had few goals scored against them, largely because of incomparable Frank ("Mr. Zero") Brimsek, a goalie who has the knack of always being...
These two, who were boyhood chums in Poznan, personify Communist use of both brain & brawn. Balding, professorial Zaremba speaks six languages and worked as a clerk with the Nazi occupation forces as a spy for the resistance. Stocky, genial Kupczynski, who, when he stops smiling, looks like a Bowery tough, won Poland's highest medal for valor as a fighter in the resistance...
...Brawn and speed may have meant the difference but the undercurrent of strategy worked out on practice fields in New Haven and Cambridge this fall predetermined the action and turned the ballgame into an offensive battle. Neither team had much trouble moving the ball as the Crimson unveiled a series of new maneuvers involving sweeps and cutbacks while Blue pulverized with variations of their standard stuff, mostly effected by a pair of backs named Jackson and Nadherny neither of whom looked very injured...