Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baseball did it. So did pro football and pro basketball. The wonder is that it took hockey so long. In comparative terms, hockey has long been the most popular and profitable of all pro sports...
There has not been an empty seat at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens for 20 years, and the Boston Bruins, who have finished last in the National Hockey League for five straight years, regularly outdraw the Boston Celtics, who have won seven straight National Basketball Association championships. So the N.H.L. decided last week to expand from six to twelve teams, granting new franchises to Los Angeles, St. Louis, San Francisco-Oakland, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh...
Phillips Academy, Andover, which has contributed Dennis McCullough, Jack Garrity, Jorge Gonzalez, and Dex Newton to this year's Crimson varsity, presently boasts four of Massachusetts' top schoolboy hockey players -- all of whom have applied to Harvard...
...Harris's freshman hockey team, boasting an impressive 12-2 record, faces off against undefeated Andover, the top secondary school hockey team in New and, at 4 p.m. in Watson Rink today. In addition to being a real corker, the game will provide a golden scouting opportunity for all those varsity hockey fans who, frustrated by Monday's Beanpot debacle, have begun to look forward to next few years...
...opportunity of watching goalie Bill Diercks in action is alone worth the walk down to Watson (admission is free). From Edina, Minnesota, where he was coached by one of the greatest amateur goalies in American hockey history, Diercks is quick, confident, and bold--a stand-up goalie who is already expert at cutting down shooters' angles...