Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's hockey team plays the first of three crucial Ivy League contests when it meets a slumping, but dangerous. Yale sextet at 8:30 p.m. tonight at the Boston Arena...
During a practice session seven years ago, the Chicago Black Hawks' Stan Mi-kita split the flat, straight blade of his hockey stick into a haphazard V-shape...
Changing the Style. While some rival players scoffed at the "silly sticks," the fact that Mikita and Hull developed into the most potent one-two scoring combination in hockey induced many other pros to experiment with the new blades. Now more than half of the players in the National Hockey League are using the bowed blades, ranging from the slight bend favored by the Detroit Red Wings' Gordie Howe to the severe 1½-in. hook of Mikita's "banana stick." The innovation, comparable to the introduction of fiber-glass poles in pole vaulting or metal rackets...
...success of Harvard's hockey team in upcoming games with Yale and Cornell will depend to a great extent upon teamwork, and teamwork is the trademark of three sophomores who constitute the team's explosive line...
...Joey is a natural for center," Kinasewich said. "His ability to control the puck and use his wings to the teams's advantage certainly makes him one of the finest centers in college hockey...