Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Al Dewey '36, successor to former Freshman Coach Clark Hodder and former Crimson and Boston Olympic star, has only been able to run his Yardling hockey squad through one short practice of a half an hour last Friday in the Boston Arena. The place for future practice is uncertain...
...public-spirited or publicity-spirited, depending on one's views, "Athleticism," he says, "attracts boys and girls to college who do not want and cannot use a college education." And although there are rather few institutions which make a practice of going out and hiring a topnotch feminine field hockey aggregation, there is, nevertheless, a lot of truth in this new attack on athletic over-emphasis. Let us use two colleges as examples, both of them institutions which are not mentioned by Mr. Hutchins...
With two weeks to go before the season's opener with the Junior Olympics, Coach Clark Hodder's choices for key Varsity hockey posts are still pretty much a matter of conjecture...
Dyed-in-the-wool hockey fans, who succeeded in finding a few inches of hockey news in their morning papers the past week, discovered the following innovations for the coming season: 1) there are only seven clubs in the National Hockey League (the Montreal Maroons folded); 2) there are no longer two divisions in the league; 3) the team that wins the most games at season's end will be awarded the National Hockey League championship without more ado, but the "world championship" will be awarded as heretofore to the winner of the post-season Stanley Cup play-offs...
Although the best team often fails to win the Stanley Cup, undaunted hockey enthusiasts were nevertheless churning over pre-season prognostications last week. Favorites: the bruising Boston Bruins (with practically the same squad as last year); the French-speaking Montreal Canadiens (fortified by six of last year's Maroons) ; the lucky Chicago Blackhawks, who finished sixth in the eight-team league last year (converted into championship calibre by the purchase of a complete ready-made forward line from the Maroons) ; and the up-&-coming New York Rangers (whose farm-bred kid team beat the reputable Americans six times...