Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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National characteristics not only show up in food, fashion and love, but also in sport-particularly in ice hockey. Canada's own game is like the land itself: rugged and bruising, a body-contact sport something like a combination of lacrosse (another Canadian game) and football. European hockey is so different as to be barely recognizable at times. While Canadians are trained to deliver solid body and board checks, the Europeans tend to play hockey like soccer, as a game of finesse with greater emphasis on pinpoint passing and Fancy Dan pattern plays...
...varsity hockey team recently elected Michael Graney '60, of Leverett House and Norwood, captain of next year's squad. This season, Graney, a first-string defenseman, made five goals and ten assists and was especially valuable in front of the goal because of his alertness and heads-up playing...
North Dakota beat Michigan State, 4-3, Saturday, to win the National Collegiate hockey championship tournament in Troy, N.Y. In a second game, Boston College defeated St. Lawrence...
...unit, the freshman hockey squad was a faster team than any of its opponents, except Colby. This speed resulted because a group of particularly good individual skaters had that saving grace of being able to work well together. Unfortunately, however, because of playing so many teams which didn't really care in the earlier part of the season, the freshmen never learned to play under pressure, as evidenced in its 4-3 overtime loss to Yale...
...success, this team has been the second-worst one in the last five years, a period of phenomenal success for freshman hockey. Last year, the least spectacular one, the record was 17-5. The year before, the Yardlings had a 17-2 record, and of the two preceeding seasons, one was undefeated, the other marred by one loss. Also in this period, the freshmen have lost only two games with Ivy League competitors, one of which was the recent loss to Yale on March 7, which gave Yale the unofficial Ivy League championship by virtue of its untarnished...