Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show, prize-fight, operatic concert, wrestling match, flower show, track meet, hockey game all these can follow in rapid succession in Boston Madison Square Garden, the new home of Harvard hockey...
...afternoon sees the Harvard hockey squad working out on a vast sheet of ice, and on the same evening enormous flood lights show great banks of faces gathered around the squared circle of the prize ring...
Harvard, standing always in the nor-east wind of New England, has been a hockey college since the inauguration of the sport in the circles of intercollegiate athletics. Thirty years ago a group of Harvard students, with F. S. Elliot of the Law School and J. W. Dunlop '97 at their head, got out in the icy afternoons and froze their toes and their noses and their ears so that Harvard's hockey team today could work out in the finest indoor ice arena in New England...
...Harvard hockey players had to battle everything but the police in their efforts to practice in those late winters of the Gay Nineties. An expedition, carrying all its worldly hockey goods with it, would set out in the afternoon, like Xenophon's Ten Thousand, looking for a place with ice. When it was found, camp was pitched, clothes were changed in the cold, and hockey was played as conditions permitted...
Band enthusiasts will be glad to learn that the organization is not breaking up at the end of the football season this year as it has done in the past, but that it will continue and play at the more important hockey games, including those with Yale, Dartmouth, and two or three others...