Word: defenseman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week. "We've really caught fire," says Left Wing Johnny Bucyk, 32, a twelve-year veteran who is well on his way to his finest season -with 19 goals and 18 assists so far, making him the No. 3 scorer in the league. Borrowing pro-football lingo, Defenseman Ted Green says that "this year we're blitzing. Last year, we'd drop back 15 yards and punt." The man who lit the blaze in Boston is a baby-faced 19-year-old named Bobby Orr, who in only his second big-league season is already regarded...
...Percent. Rough, tough hockey has its price, and the Bruins have paid it-in injuries as well as penalties and fines. Defenseman Green missed two games with a badly bruised knee. Orr earlier this season had his nose broken twice within a week, and he was sidelined for half of December with a fractured collarbone. Both regular Boston goalies, Eddie Johnston and Gerry Cheevers, are laid up with injuries, and the Bruins had to make do last week with Andre Gill, a 5-ft. 7-in. 155-pounder who was hurriedly called up from the minors. Like everybody else...
Chuck Rancourt capped 9:43 of Engineer pressure with a rebound goal, then defenseman Norm Bean made it 2-0 at 19:07 of the first period. Bean's power-play effort came only 13 seconds after Harvard's Ron Mark was sent off the ice for tripping...
...onion peeler right out where everybody could see him. Pro football really can make strong men cry, and Washington Redskins Linebacker Sam Huff's turn came as he announced his retirement after a brutal twelve-year career, during which he made All-Pro five times. Now 33, Defenseman Huff (TIME Cover, Nov. 30, 1959) went from West Virginia to eight years of stardom with the New York Giants, playing on five championship teams, before he was traded to Washington four years ago. "Everyone has to do it some time and it's my time now," Sam sniffed...
...difference between Cornell and every team Harvard has played to date is defense. If Captain Skip Stanowski (the only senior on Cornell's squad!) is not the best collegiate defenseman in the country, it would be because his partner, junior Bruce Pattison, is. And sophomore Dwayne Ferguson is not that far behind...