Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HOCKEY (major H)--David M. Abbot '50; William A. Allen, 2nd '50; Bramwell B. Arnold '48; Myles D. Huntington '50; Albert L. Key, 2nd '50; David M. Key, Jr. '49; John E. Lavalle '46 ocC (captain); Q. A. Shaw McKean, Jr. '50; George G. Loring '50; George R. Minot, 2nd '49; Walter E. Sears '46 ocC; Lawrence W. Ward '50; Stephen L. Washburn '49; Harcourt Wood '49; William E. Yetman '50; Vincent W. Jones, Jr. '45 ocC (manager...
...Business. Last season the National Hockey League's six teams (two in Canada, four in the U.S.) drew better than 2,400,000 fans, grossed almost $4,000,000, paid 102 players (93 Canadians, four Britons, five U.S. citizens) about $900,000. The league had an investment of $25,000,000 in arenas. The three professional leagues now operating had an investment in players of $75,000.000. Such figures are only a partial measure of how far the game has come in its 73 years of history...
Besides the N.H.L., there are two other important professional circuits, the American Hockey League (eleven teams) and the U.S. Hockey League (eight teams), which operate in the U.S. This season the two minor leagues drew all but five of their 348 men from the Dominion...
...Game. There are 70,000 registered amateur hockey players in Canada. Dominion youngsters ask for skates almost as soon as they can talk, at seven are ready for competitive hockey in the "peewee leagues." This year the Dominion's two big-league teams (Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens) will spend more than $70,000 to help keep amateurs on ice, groom some of them ultimately for the big time. In a setup similar to major-league baseball, N.H.L.'s six teams own farm teams in the lesser professional and amateur leagues...
...National Hockey League's present fortunes are guided by a tightlipped, teetotaling bachelor lawyer named Clarence S. Campbell, who made news a fortnight ago when he cracked down on a couple of players involved in a gambling fix (TIME, March 22). For love of hockey, Campbell ditched a profitable law practice for three years to referee big-league games. In September 1946, he was made N.H.L.'s president, given a $15,000 salary, a spacious office in league headquarters in Montreal. Campbell wants more clubs, more arenas. Says he: "It's an awfully good game...