Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late 19th century after they got tired of a British sport called bandy.* They could usually be counted on to turn out the best amateur team in the world. Then last year, Toronto's Lyndhursts went to Stockholm and embarrassed all of Canada: they lost the international championship to the Moscow Dynamos, a bunch of hard-skating sportsmen from the MVD, Russia's security police...
...Scored." Last fall the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association reached into the Far West and picked British Columbia's Penticton Vs to take a crack at regaining the championship. Canadians decided that the title was all but home. In the four years since they were organized, the Vs had developed into one of the slickest teams...
...Penticton (pop. 14,000) grow fruit to earn their living, but they live for hockey. On road trips the team is ferried by volunteer drivers in private cars; a women's auxiliary washes the players' jerseys and darns their socks. During the playoffs for the Canadian championship last May, when an elderly lady collapsed of a heart attack, she surprised no one with her last words: "Go see who scored that goal!" The entire team attended her funeral...
Bawling Burgher. This month, hometown boosters followed the team to West Germany at their own expense to watch them fight to get the championship back. Wherever the Vs tuned up in practice games, Penticton rooters made a loud and loyal crew. To their surprise, they got a lot of outside support. While the Vs were trouncing a pickup team of Berliners, German spectators screamed: "Beat the Russians! Beat the Russians...
From the Eli point of view, the possibility of sending a humiliated Crimson out to the Colorado championship tourney is inviting indeed. At any rate, with Yale playing before the usual highly-partisan crowd, a repeat of last Saturday's rout is hardly likely...