Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toronto's rough, tough Maple Leafs, known as hockey's bad men, had no corner on rowdiness. The Detroit Red Wings, no sissies themselves, met them whack for whack two weeks ago. Last week, with the two teams neck & neck (or throat to throat) for the National Hockey League lead, 13,284 Torontonians turned out to see another battle of bashed heads...
...charging, both teams were overcome by a sudden fit of manners. Seven seconds before the game's end, the Leafs, with a dramatic sally, salvaged a 4-4 tie, and kept their slim, one-point league lead. The game's flashes of roughness were as old as hockey itself, but the pell-mell style of play was something fairly new. It was certainly a long way from prewar hockey...
Shinny Style. A change has come over professional hockey in the past five years. At first, the change was blamed by some fans on inferior wartime players. Connoisseurs of team-play began missing one of the game's biggest thrills: the sight of two wings and a center flashing abreast down the ice', two enemy defensemen getting set for impact, the deft passes, the shot, the clear-cut scoring play. Instead, they saw a game that was more like high-pressure "shinny...
...background, Canada's northern climate provides natural ice for over half the year and natural skaters from the time youthful natives are old enough to walk. The earliest hockey game on authentic historical record was played on Montreal's Victoria skating rink with two McGill students piloting the opposing teams. The present coach, popular Dave Campbell, is a heavy believer in the farm system for developing talent...
Colorado College, known familiarly as the Bengals, is the only college in the Rockies to boast a hockey team, and although its rink competition is only nine years old, the mountaineers modestly call their schedule "one of the roughest in the united States." Frankly looking to the north for material, Colorado has a team roster of 17 that lists 12 Canadians, but their 1945-46 team won-and-lost record (against teams largely from Canada) shows a lean three victories, all against the same team, as opposed to eight losses...