Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other sports were better able to make the transition from war to peace, although many faced particular problems of their own. Hockey, basketball, and baseball teams carried over many players from informal squads of 1945. The skaters, however, ran afoul of Yale and Dartmouth, two faster-developing postwar aggregations which they will have to be pointing for this winter, and the basketball and baseball squads had to become familiar with two new coaches...
Other sports were better able to make the transition from war to peace, although many faced particular problems of their own. Hockey, basketball, and baseball teams carried over many players from informal squads of 1945. The skaters, however, ran afoul of Yale and Dartmouth, two faster-developing post-war aggregations which they will have to be pointing for this winter, and the basketball and baseball squads had to become familiar with two new coaches...
Near Rohri in Pakistan several hundred Moslems stopped a train, hauled out 13 Sikhs, clubbed them to death with hockey sticks. An Indian Army courier told how, in the remote Shakirgarh district of Pakistan, a small Hindu military force had found only 1,500 known survivors from a community of 120,000 Sikhs. He estimated that over 100,000 had been butchered, caught between a howling Moslem mob and the flooded Ravi river...
...addition to the center, the ballots given to students listed proposals for scholarships (receiving a 17.4 percent vote), hockey rink and auditorium (16.9 percent), music center (3.3 percent), new infirmary (2 percent), music center (3.3 percent), new infirmary (2 percent), monument statue, plaque, etc. (1.8 percent), as well as space for write-in suggestions, which provided the remainder of the votes
Ride Him! Last week on Johns Hopkins' floodlit field, Baltimore's two unbeaten teams squared off against each other. The game they played was something like hockey without skates-with one big difference: the ball was not shuffled along the ground with hockey sticks but carried in a net on the end of a stick. The ball was scooped up first by a dark-jerseyed Hopkins man who cradled it in his webbed stick and bulled his way through Mount Washington's defense ring, plunging and twisting toward the goal. Around him he heard cries: "Ride...