Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Williams will provide the Varsity hockey team with its final workout before the impending trok to New Haven Saturday when the two teams face off in the Arena at 8:30 o'clock tonight. Preliminary afternoon contests will pit the Freshmen against New Prep and the Jayvees against the G.B.I. All Stars...
Three Crimson hockey teams were victorious yesterday, as the Varsity took a fast, close game from the Needham Hockey Club 7 to 4 in the Arena, following a 10 to 2 win for the Jayvees over Medford and un unofficial 6 to 0 shutout for the Freshmen at the expense of Belmont Hill...
This week Richard (pronounced Ree-shar) put on his 12 Ibs. of shin & shoulder pads, ankle-length underwear, skates and stovepipe pants, skated onto the ice before Montreal's largest hockey crowd of the season (12,674). Once during the evening, against the arch-rival Toronto Maple Leafs, the crowds got what they came to see. There was a pass, a swift attack by Richard on the cage, a flick of his stick; and The Rocket had scored. The stands rang with cowbells, cheers and whistles...
...partisan Montreal, fans speak of The Rocket in the same breath with hockey's immortal Howie Morenz. Other hockey towns, which have heckled him by calling out "Ouvrez la porte, Richard," are now ready to agree that he is more than a wartime wonder...
...powerful, 175-lb. French Canadian, Maurice Richard is deservedly the highest-paid player in hockey ($9,000 a year). He has a whiplike getaway: in three strides he can be at full speed; he doesn't telegraph his goal shots: the puck is in flight almost before the goalie knows Richard has snapped his stick. His only serious shortcoming, which Howie Morenz did not share, is a weakness on back-checking; critics call him a "one-way player." But his scoring strength offsets that defect...