Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOCKEY...
Tech makes no pretense of running a well-rounded athletic program; the same night the Huskies were beating Minnesota, Tech's basketball team allowed Isidore Schmiesing of St. Cloud State College to score 56 points-thereby absorbing its 16th loss of the season. Hockey is the game in Houghton, and the town's devotion is maniacal. When season tickets for the 1,065 seats in Dee Stadium went on sale last November, they sold out in 2½ hours...
...most responsible for Tech's hockey fortunes is Coach John MacInnes, 40, and he feels the pressure so much that he has spent most of a game in the dressing room, fighting the dry heaves. In ten years at Tech, he has won 185 games and two N.C.A.A. championships, produced ten All-Americas. MacInnes gets $24,000 of Tech's annual $40,000 budget for athletic scholarships, and he spends it across the border in Canada, where promising youngsters get pro-type experience on "junior" amateur teams subsidized by the National Hockey League...
...Bobby Hull, 27: his 50th goal of the season, tying Maurice Richard's (and his own) National Hockey League record, as the Chicago Black Hawks beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-4; at Chicago...
...first period Northeastern played sloppily and had trouble clearing the puck out of their defensive zone. They were continually harassed by the quicker and more aggressive B.U. forwards. The Huskies shook off the doldrums in the second and third periods and settled down to play fine and fast hockey...