Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tripping in hockey is an infraction of the rules that calls for a two-minute penalty. Faced with the choice of a two-minute penalty or a goal for his opponents, a shrewd hockey player will often chance the penalty, and this was exactly what Forward Herb Lewis of the Detroit Red Wings did last week when it looked as though Neil Colville of the New York Rangers had a clear shot at the Detroit goal. What happened in the next split second caused the liveliest controversy of the 1937 hockey season, probably settled its most important series...
...distinction between major and minor seems to mean very little. A soccer player, for instance, takes his training as seriously, is just as worked up over the thought of getting into the Yale game, and will as willingly give his last effort for the cause as any football or hockey enthusiast. In tennis, another of the lesser sports, the team competitor has even more responsibility to keep on the top of his form, since he is individually responsible for the success or failure of his own particular match. Likewise in lacrosse and many others it seems inconceivable that the players...
...investigate and foster the possibility of a future Harvard hockey rink," the Student Council last night appointed a continuing committee on the third resolution in its athletic report of March...
...Russell Allen '38, Council member and hockey letterman, heads the new body. Working with him will be S. Trafford Hicks, Jr. '38, captain of the 1938 sextet, Alden S. Blodget '38, manager, F. Austin Harding, Jr. '39, letterman, and Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. '38, Student Council member...
First to be considered a major sport was rowing, the others being in order of their approval baseball, football, track, and hockey. The latter was given a first rating in 1913. With the move of the Athletic Committee colleges in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, which includes Princeton, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Cornell, and Columbia, almost unanimously recognize the activity on a par with football and other chief sports...