Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston professional hockey team was returning from Quebec in its special car. At the border custom officers boarded the train; were shocked to find 20 quarts of whiskey concealed in the athletes' luggage. The contraband liquor was seized; fines of five dollars per bottle imposed; reprimands administered. Just as the culprits were about to be sent on their way, further search of the car revealed 65 additional bottles hidden in a linen closet. The car was detached from the train; the entire team detained in Richford...
...sporting Freshmen of the Smith Halls, finding the organized sports falling off, have called upon their ingenuity and taken up indoor sports in their common room, to tide them over the present dull season. Symptoms of this tendency were shown earlier on in the year when hockey games, participated in by four players and attended by large crowds of shouting enthusiasts were the vogue. Fortunately for the furniture and floor of the Common Room this bit of diversion was interrupted by the Smith Hall Proctors...
John Peirce Chase '28 of Milton was elected captain of the 1928 hockey team at a meeting of the letter men yesterday afternoon. Chase, who has been a regular on the sextet for the past two years, was one of the main cogs in the team's offense this winter...
...sporting huntsmen, has a roster too exclusive to be amusing. Peers, even Edward of Wales, have matched their blood with its blue uniform. That the blooded Bullingdons, incapable in the past of anything more sprightly than throaty singing and waving neckless bottles, should have attempted a public spectacle with hockey sticks, copper kettles and chunks of coal, was inexcusably dull...
Election of a leader for next year's hockey team, which was to have been held yesterday, has been postponed until tomorrow afternoon...