Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the hockey season ended last year, with the Ottawa Senators world's champions, critics said "Watch the Rangers." The blue-shirted New York team were picked to win this year because they were fast and clever, because their centre, Frank Boucher, is the smartest poke-checker in the game, because their two bald defense men, Ivan ("Ching") Johnson and Clarence ("Taffy") Abel, are heavy and efficient, because Bill Cook, who skates with the rhythm of a moose running, is the highest-paid team captain in the National Hockey League, because Bun Cook, his brother who looks like Lindbergh...
...When a hockey season ends the teams ranked second and third in each group play each other for the right to play the leading team for the group championship. There are two groups, American and International. The Montreal Maroons beat the Canadiens for the championship in the International group and in the American group the Rangers inspired suddenly to justify predictions, beat Pittsburgh and then Boston...
Three Harvard hockey players have been placed on the all-collegiate hockey team of C. L. Wanamaker, coach of the Yale sextet. F. R. G. Giddens '30 has been listed at right wing, Captain J. P. Chase '28 at center, and Joseph Morrill '28 would stand in the net for the mythical...
John Tudor '29 of St. Mark's School was elected captain of next year's University hockey team at a meeting of this year's lettermen yesterday afternoon at Notman's Studio. Tudor, who has been a regular on the Crimson sextet for the past two years, was one of the mainstays of the forward line this winter...
Blond Murray Murdock, forward of the Ranger's New York hockey club, is one of the fastest, most graceful skaters in professional hockey. He seldom scores. Usually, when he has got past the defense and tried a shot he does not follow the puck like his bald teammate, Ivan ("Ching") Johnson, but skates gracefully back, content that he has made an effort. Last Saturday in Boston young Murdock got angry when Indian-faced Hitchman of Boston, wearing a patch of plaster over each eye, had thrown him against the boards. Three times Murdock went down the ice, scored twice...