Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three deep in material for the first time over, Radcliffe's varsity field hockey squad may be the most numerous any college has had since Princeton, 85 years ago, abandoned the sport as too dangerous for growing boys to play...
Died. Charles Francis ("Pop") Adams,* 70, millionaire president of the First National chain of grocery stores, co-founder of the Boston Bruins hockey team, organizer of the Suffolk Downs rare track; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston...
...Hockey has generated considerable world interest for the past 40 years and the U. S. A. sends an amateur team to the Olympics every leap year, more as a gesture than anything else, for it usually is promptly beaten by Canada or one of the Scandinavian countries. The hockey representatives will probably be picked as a team, at least the nucleus will, and should the Crimson some up with an unusually good season, as far as the H.A.A. is concerned, it would be eligible to enter the regional tryouts. Sports such as skiing and rifle are, of course, worked...
Relative income from other sports is interesting. Basketball "earned a little money for the first time in 15 years" last winter because of the popular double-headers scheduled in the Boston Garden in conjunction with such colleges as B.C. and Holy Cross. Hockey seems to be on its way up, although Yale and Dartmouth teams still overshadow the Crimson, the Elis having the use of a rink daily and Dartmouth having natural too while all Boston teams struggle to share what little artificial ice there is. Wrestling, attracted crowds last winter which bordered on Indoor Building basketball turnouts. Bingham attributed...
...Doctor Quigley are generally liberal about letting surface-injury victims go back into the fray. Open gashes, which bother some spectators, are stitched up right on the bench, adhesive tape is slapped over the wound and the player rushed back into the game if he's needed. "Professional hockey players aren't the only ones who compete with stitches in them." says Cox, "but the whole thing is pretty ugly business and we don't like to talk much about it. From the medical angle, it isn't too dangerous to play with a stitched-up cut or a reset...