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PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY...
Since a flying hockey puck travels a good deal faster than the human body, a topflight goalie needs the knack of being in the right place at the right time. It also helps to have perfect balance, knowledge of the tactics of the opponent streaking down-ice toward the net and a thoughtfully padded uniform. In the National Hockey League, the man who seemed to combine the necessary qualities better than anybody else this season was Toronto-born William Ronald ("Big Bill") Durnan, 34-year-old veteran of the Montreal Canadiens...
...Bill Durnan was not the most graceful man on the ice. With the padding they wear, goalies seldom are. He seemed to get out of position a lot. This was deceptive on Big Bill's part. "Durnan fools you," said another National Hockey League star last week. "One second he leaves a big hole on one side of the cage, but the next he's in there on top of the puck. He knows he can move fast...
Bill Durnan was one reason why the Montreal Canadiens were in third place in the league and awaiting a crack at the Stanley Cup playoffs, which begin next week. Despite the pell-mell style of postwar hockey, with the emphasis on five-man gang attacks and wild scrambles at the goalmouth, hard-working Bill Durnan has achieved ten shutouts...
...been lost through graduation--third baseman and Captain John Coppinger and utility outfielder Lennie Lunder--but injuries are already starting to deplate Stuffy's manpower. Myles Huntington, regular second baseman last year, will be out for the season with a broken right collar bone suffered in the last Dartmouth hockey game; and left fielder Jim Kenary, who played against Yale last spring, is still unable to throw overhand because of a shoulder injury sustained last Summer. Add in the fact that Chip Gannon isn't playing this spring and you have two-thirds of the outfield wide open as well...