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Gene Purdy was wearing a protective mask on his helmet last night, the result of losing his two front teeth in the Cornell game last Wednesday...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: B.U. Cops Beanpot, 4-3; Icemen Lose | 2/13/1979 | See Source »

...slip into your Jofa helmet and sharpen your Koho stick. Face-off time is nigh approaching. At the Forum, Roget Doucet is singing "Oh, Canada," and we can hear him. Screw the blue books, it's blue line time. The referee is an Islander fan, but any hockey esoterica is fair game...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Watch Out: One More (Stanley Cup) Final to Go | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

...dull, boring game." Aside from an abortive third-period Crimson comeback ignited by hustling freshman defenseman Mitch Olson and the inspired heroics of senior star Gene Purdy (who suffered a broken wrist in the final seconds and won't be able to show off his new Swedish Jofa helmet for at least a few weeks), last night's edition of this once great rivalry lacked the tension and excitement that make it so appealing...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Terriers Concerned Despite Success | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...receivers get pounded whether or not they catch the ball." Racking up the empty-handed receiver is just one practice in the N.F.L. that angers and frustrates Verbruggen and Pleasant Valley's coaches, because it invites imitation. Spearing (the vicious ramming of a downed player with the hardshell helmet), late hits, chop blocks, open taunts and intimidation are regular fare on Sunday-afternoon TV. Says Assistant Coach Gary Bruch: "We're out there five days a week trying to teach high school kids to be good sports, working on the right ways to tackle and block. Then they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pennsylvania: Trying to Make Football Injury-Free | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...which they had been subjected. Last week, for the first time, Iranians read about the horrors that much of the rest of the world already knew: the "Apollo machine," a chair in which prisoners were tied while their feet were slashed and they were tortured with electric shock; the "helmet," a metal apparatus designed to make the victim's screams reverberate inside his head; and such practices as hanging women prisoners naked from the ceiling and burning them with cigarettes. So shocking were the disclosures that newly appointed Justice Minister Hussein Najafi immediately promised the release of Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Another Crisis for the Shah | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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