Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stockholm's Central Station the Czech ice hockey team lined up to take the southbound train. The players had just won the world's championship and they were in an alcoholic mood. Happiest of all was hefty, beaming Manager Antonin Vo-dicka. "Everybody here?" he asked. "We could not find Marek," glowered the thinlipped man whom Prague had sent along to act as the team's Communist chaperon. But Vodicka was unconcerned. "Maybe he's in the train," he hiccoughed and stumbled in himself...
...government made sure that the remnants of his team remained intact. It had already lost two of Czechoslovakia's championship swimmers and the chief of its women's contingent to the Olympic Games (TIME, Aug. 23), who escaped while competing in events abroad. Last week, after the hockey team was welcomed back to Prague (see cut), the government canceled its date to play the Racing-Club de France. Reason: "too many of our finest sportsmen sent out to represent the national flag remain abroad...
...Lowell's hockey team came from behind twice to defeat Dudley 3 to 2 yesterday...
Tonight at 9 p.m. the unpredictable varsity hockey team meets Yale at the Arena in the opening game of the traditional best of three game series...
Yale has only a fair hockey team this year, boasting an outstanding record of eight wins and ten losses. It has a good defense, holding its 18 opponents to less than five goals a game, and one good line...