Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOCKEY...
...Chicago Black Hawks' Bobby Hull has been called the "perfect muscular mesomorph." He is the National Hockey League's Most Valuable Player, its fastest skater (upward of 23 m.p.h.) and hardest shooter (his lefthanded slap shot rockets toward the net at 118 m.p.h.). Goalies complain that getting in the way of a Bobby Hull shot is "like being slugged with a sledge hammer," and practically everybody agrees with Montreal's Claude Provost that Hull is "the strongest guy in hockey." He even looks mean when he smiles, because he is missing his three front teeth...
...nine games with injuries. Healthy, Hull scored 32 goals in his first 35 games; hobbled, he scored only seven goals the rest of the season, lost the scoring title to Teammate Stan Mikita. The Black Hawks wound up third, and Coach Billy Reay angrily accused Bobby of playing "pamby" hockey...
...Harvard hockey team last night made its first Ivy win an Indian massacre, rolling up a lopsided 8-3 margin over Dartmouth in Watson Rink...
When the Harvard hockey team flow come from Cornell Saturday it left more woods than just Ithaca's Sapsucker forest. Behind the icemen now are the toughest part of the Ivy schedule, meetings with all the top Eastern independents, and the heavy shuffling of personnel that marked the season's first half...