Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even before that, when American college hockey was played by Americans, the system produced only one player for the National Hockey League-Tommy Williams. So unless the caliber of home-grown competitors has improved independently since that time, it is dubious that the proposed restriction will do much to increase the number of Americans the professional ranks...
...real purpose behind the quota must be elsewhere, and it may just lie in the resentment of the majority of Eastern colleges, at least, that have watched helplessly as Cornell, for example, destroyed their hockey teams year after year with almost totally Canadian rosters...
...number of Eastern colleges that depend heavily upon Canadian talent is only a handful, but the extent to which they depend upon it, and the success with which they have been able to dominate Eastern hockey since the mid-60's is incredible...
Menard has termed the proposal "an act of discrimination," and perhaps it is. But clearly, in the case of Cornell. the Canadians are recruited almost exclusively for purposes of hockey, and it smacks of exploitation...
...Harkness alleged recruiting methods do little to dispel the charge. In a recent year, he deliberately fed a goaltender highly questionable information in an effort to prevent him from applying to Harvard, and several other Crimson hockey players have related similar incidents of Harkness' "negative recruiting...