Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year we're blitzing. Last year, we'd drop back 15 yards and punt." The man who lit the blaze in Boston is a baby-faced 19-year-old named Bobby Orr, who in only his second big-league season is already regarded as one of pro hockey's most talented defensemen and a budding superstar. "Bobby," says Coach Sinden, "does it all. He's the only player I've ever seen who can operate at top speed-wide-open, breakneck speed-and still execute all the fundamentals of the game." When Orr first arrived...
...Percent. Rough, tough hockey has its price, and the Bruins have paid it-in injuries as well as penalties and fines. Defenseman Green missed two games with a badly bruised knee. Orr earlier this season had his nose broken twice within a week, and he was sidelined for half of December with a fractured collarbone. Both regular Boston goalies, Eddie Johnston and Gerry Cheevers, are laid up with injuries, and the Bruins had to make do last week with Andre Gill, a 5-ft. 7-in. 155-pounder who was hurriedly called up from the minors. Like everybody else...
...schedule. Despite the breakneck speed with which it went up, the colonnaded, Roman-style structure, designed by Los Angeles-based Charles Luckman Associates, is distinguished by its spectator-pleasing efficiency. For one thing, the arena has gone all out for color coding. On their arrival for the opening hockey game between the Kings and the Philadelphia Flyers, fans holding yellow tickets, for example, found that they parked their cars in a yellow-designated lot. They entered the arena at a yellow gate and passed through a yellow tunnel to the yellow section, where girls wearing yellow mini-togas showed them...
...seat Forum in suburban Inglewood, Calif., ten miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles. The $16.5 million Forum is the brainchild of Millionaire Sportsman Jack Kent Cooke, 55, who decided to put up a new home for his Los Angeles Lakers pro basketball team and his new Los Angeles Kings hockey team. In fact, Cooke only won the franchise for the Kings by audaciously promising to have the arena finished in a breathtaking 16 months...
...Harvard hockey team flew out of Troy, N.Y., last night in search of the comeback trail, but got woefully lost, 7-2 to R.P.I. Harvard eventually wound up outshooting the Engineers, 35-31, but the strong squad of underclass Canadians outskated and outscored the Crimson in each period...