Word: hockeyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real rough hockey and a possible brawl is what you're looking for in the way of entertainment, by all means wend your way down to the Boston Arena tonight. The varsity hockey team and B.U., the two contenders whose most recent skirmish resulted last year in 58 minutes of penalties and four serious injuries, face off at 9 p.m. in the second half of the season's first hockey double bill...
...paper the B.U. squad is easily the finest hockey team in the New England area. It has Ike Bevins now in his third official year (his fourth unofficially) playing in the goal along with what amounts to the very same set of forwards and defensemen as last year...
After the evolution of ordinary street hockey, the inevitable introduction of plain speed racing, and a dubious form of amusement in which the participants dance while on roller skates, there didn't seem to be much left for people to do on wheels. All this failed to daunt one Lee A. Seltzer, an athletic-minded Chicagoan who figured that the millions of Americans who roller skate and the millions of Americans who wrestle ought to be thrown together in one merry mob. The Roller Derby originated in Chicago...
Neither a "Tech's - a - poppin'" weekend crowd nor a co-ed cheerleading squad could help MIT in the Arena Saturday night as the Crimson successfully opened its hockey season with a 10 to 5 victory over the Engineers. But evens, the varsity did not turn in a polished performance...
...Crimson team was in command all the way, but it never played consistently good hockey for more than a few minutes at a time. This condition might easily be laid to lack of practice and understandable opening game unsteadiness, but another performance of this sort will not beat Boston University tomorrow nor any of the strong Pentagonal League contenders later in the season...