Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starring nine Commonwealth Fellows, exchange graduate students from English universities, six of whom are residents here, a highly-touted Harvard field hockey team faces a powerful Vassar eleven in a presumably heated contest this afternoon at Poughkeepsie...
...meeting of the whole Council a recommendation to the Athletic Committee was passed after a somewhat long and heated discussion asking that hockey be made a major sport. The Athletic Committee carried out the suggestion...
What can you expect when a hockey team is managed by a baseball umpire? Such was the prevailing taunt among U. S. sport fans when the Chicago Black Hawks, managed by Baseball Umpire Bill Stewart, wound up the regular season four weeks ago with only 14 victories in 48 games. Ending in third place in their division of the National Hockey League. Bill Stewart's team just qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs, but few insiders gave, them an outside chance...
...Black Hawks had swooped down on their three successive adversaries (third-place Montreal Canadiens, second-place New York Americans, top-ranking Toronto Maple Leafs, and snatched the Stanley Cup from under their blinking eyes, jeers changed to cheers. William Joseph Stewart was hailed as the "miracle man of hockey." the No. 1 sport figure...
...Boston Braves from last place in mid-July to a pennant and world championship in October. But Bill Stewart's achievement was in some ways even more remarkable, because: 1) he had led his team to a world championship in his first year as a hockey manager; 2) although a longtime hockey referee, he had never played the game except on Boston frog ponds, had never coached except at polite New England schools (including Radcliffe...