Word: hockey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quest for experience that motivates the H.A.A. to schedule road trips for the hockey team with such opposition as McGill and Colorado, the recently concluded tour may be considered a success. The Varsity dropped five straight without a single...
After two week of pre-Christmas intramurals which ended with Winthrop House boasting an unbeaten basketball squad but with only three hockey games and a few squash matches played, winter intramurals will enter the second round of the schedule this week...
...carry the puck up to midice, then bat it down in the general vicinity of the enemy goal, with everyone but the goalie scrambling after it. More goals are made: scores now read 5 to 4 instead of 2 to 1. This season, with a postwar crop of hockey pros developing, the shinny style is more popular than ever...
...regrets the turn hockey has taken is taciturn Frank Boucher, an Irishman with a French name (rhymes with touché), who coaches the New York Rangers. Boucher, one of the greatest playmaking centers ever to wear skates, was one of the first coaches to install the new fire-horse technique. "Any club that doesn't use it," he insists, "will have its brains beaten out." It also gives coaches some jittery moments. A coach's most difficult task under the new style, says Boucher, is getting his men to switch quickly from five-man offense to five...
Bull Strength v. Speed. So far, with the hockey season one-third over, no team has shown a clear-cut edge in the new-style -game. Only Chicago's Black Hawks, for lack of an adequate goaltender, seem doomed. The other five teams, all practitioners of hit-&-run hockey, are bunched up front for differing reasons...