Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's hockey team, proud possesor of six victories, two of them over Canadian teams, meets one of the sextets from across the border tonight in a return game when it tackles the Toronto team at the Boston Garden at 8.30 o'clock. The Crimson won the first tilt in the New York Garden during the Christmas recess by a 4 to 1 score...
Like baseball watches who say that the team that leads the league on the Fourth of July will win the pennant, hockey followers also have a mid-season superstition. They say that the Stanley Cup is won in January. Of the ten major league teams that begin this week the critical middle month of their activity, four stand high in the running...
Montreal Canadiens, present world champions, are the fastest and one of the toughest teams on the ice. In their lineup is still famed slope-faced, round-shouldered Howie Morenz, the highest paid, the fastest hockey player in the world. Aurel Joliat, in his little black cap, puts Morenz in position to shoot and handles his passes with none of the jealousy that in past seasons has marred their cooperation...
Chicago: in the first weeks the Blackhawks played phenomenally, justifying the odd theories of OWner Frederic McLaughlin who copied Knute Rockne's football tactics, sent a bigger squad into action than his rivals, got them up for calisthenics at an hour when most hockey players are sleeping. But recently two Chicago players, overtrained, have fainted in action; the team has slipped from first place to second...
...energy. In addition to regular intercollegiate cricket matches, the Field said there was an annual average of 14 post-season matches, some as late as mid-July. The average number of events on teams' schedules was given: cross-country, 12; association football (soccer), 20; rugby, 28; golf, 20; hockey, 25; lacrosse, 15 ; swimming, 12. Rugby stars last year played in international matches when the interuniversity series were over. Rowing is so strenuous that college oarsmen take up practically no other sport. ". . . In idealistic England the spectator capacity at Twickenham, where many college rugby games are played, is more than...