Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...misgivings of U.S. businessmen about the current state of the U.S. economy are nothing like the economic complaints issuing from their neighbors to the north in Canada. After a decade of thrusting growth, the Canadian economy is gripped by a far more serious recession than anything the U.S. faces, and it has caught the naturally optimistic Canadian public by surprise. A slump in key industries - mining, manufacturing, house building - promised the worst unemployment since the Depression and a winter in which 720,000 workers, or 11% of the work force, will be out of work. And to hear the Canadians...
Harder still is the fact that Denver is defending its title against other top U.S. college teams manned almost entirely by Canadians. The Canadian hockey invasion has set off one of the bitterest fights in U.S. college athletics...
Getting the Race Horses. As the most successful U.S. college recruiter of Canadian talent, Denver's natty Murray Armstrong makes no apologies for the tactic that has won 98 of 140 games, last year turned out a team that beat the Olympic squads of the U.S. (which won a gold medal at Squaw Valley), West Germany and Sweden. A Canadian himself, Coach Armstrong coolly cites the lesson he learned during his career as a National Hockey League player: "The key to success in any athletics is recruiting. You can't make a race horse out of a mule...
Ranged alongside Armstrong in the dominant Western Collegiate Hockey Association are such other far-north recruiters as Colorado College, Michigan Tech and Michigan. Against him stand a clutch of Eastern coaches whose colleges refuse to recruit Canadians and who hotly charge that a flock of the Canadian invaders are really pros by U.S. standards...
Limiting the Invasion. The Western Collegiate Hockey Association now deprives Canadian players of one season of U.S. college eligibility for every year they played the game in Canada after their 20th birthday. And under pressure from irate anti-Canadian coaches, the policy committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association this month will debate a far tougher measure: total loss of eligibility for a man who has played in any league that pays any of its players. In the meantime, Denver is looking forward to another championship this year. Shrugs one Denver fan: "All I care about is that our Canadians...