Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andrew S. Cooper--Leverett House; House Assistant athletic secretary; House committee; Student Council Committee on Education; House football, hockey, cross-country...
...Toronto Maple Leafs blew down the supposedly robust Detroit Red Wings in four straight games, to win the Stanley Cup, hockey's richest honor...
...Hockey fans, like the game they yell at, are not polite. All season in Toronto, they had grumbled about mild-mannered Harry Watson. He seemed backward about parting the enemy's hair with his hockey stick. He was too gentlemanly-a bad thing in present-day hockey, and especially during the Stanley Cup playoffs, when the players are tearing one another limb from limb. Last week in Boston Garden, Harry squared himself with Toronto fans, anyway. With seven or eight piston-like punches, he broke the nose of Boston Bruins Murray Henderson...
Connie Smythe could hardly complain about rough hockey. He tells his Maple Leafs: "If you don't try, you don't make mistakes. And the guy who doesn't make mistakes is not worth a damn." Smythe's definition of a mistake is being clapped into the penalty box. His Maple Leafs, the rowdiest team on ice, last year broke a National Hockey League record by spending 669 minutes in the penalty box, and broke their own record again this season-by nearly 100 minutes. The Leafs also happen to be about the best hockey team...
Brains & Short Bursts. Toronto's strength, over & above brawling brawn, lies in its fast, brainy centers (the quarterbacks of hockey). One is Syl Apps, 34, who once thought of becoming a clergyman. This season, afraid that Apps was slowing down, the Leafs traded five good men to the Chicago Black Hawks for pint-sized (150 Ibs.) Max Bentley, one of the most skilled stick-handlers in the game. But Apps, the playmaker, could still show dazzling speed in short bursts; and the Leafs had Bentley, too, and a young bulldog-type center called Teeder Kennedy...