Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Ivy League rules, no member was allowed to hold any sort of formal practice until yesterday. But Saturday morning, in Ithaca, New York, Cornell's Ivy League and Eastern championship hockey team was holding a closed practice, in flagrant violation of League regulations. Cornell coach Ned Harkness has been unethical for several years. Now he is illegal, and it is time for Cornell to be penalized...
...regulations covering pre-season drills are clearly defined. Prior to October 22, hockey squads are allowed to practice informally, under supervision of their captains, but the practice is limited to skating. No sticks, pads, pucks or equipment are allowed. The coach is barred from the premises...
Five sports are represented in this year's group of inductees: football and baseball have five each, hockey has four, track three, and rowing two. Wood, who won 10 letters- three each in football, hockey, and baseball, and one in tennis- will be inducted in the "All-Around" category. Wood, a distinguished research specialist at John Hopkins University Medical School, won All-American honors as a football back, and was Phi Bets Kappa...
Among the 19 other inductees are Charles Devens '32, a "good hitting" pitcher who later signed with the New York Yankees, and John P. Chase '28, who captained the '32 Olympic hockey team and later coached at Harvard. He is presently treasurer of the Varsity Club...
...this week, baseball is sure to profit by their stunning success during the season. All through the '60s, baseball has been on the verge of transforming itself from the national pastime into the national bore; it has lost considerable stature as the more colorful and violent games of hockey and football have won increasing prominence. But with one brave stroke, the 1969 Mets reversed that trend. Their own exhilarating transformation from hopeless clowns to heroic champions has extricated baseball from its beer-and-TV tawdriness and elevated it to the realm of myth it occupied long, long...